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A sking BJP leaders to “behave” and not to be car- ried away by the arrogance of power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday took a serious note of party General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya’s son’s attack on the Indore civic official with a cricket bat saying “such behav- iour will not be tolerated”. Addressing newly-elected party MPs in the first Parliamentary Party meet after the Lok Sabha poll, the PM said, “Beta kisi ka bhi ho,man- mani nahin Chalegi..” (whoso- ever’s son it may be, bad behav- iour will not be tolerated). Vijayvargiya’s son Akash, a first-time MLA, was arrested on June 26 for attacking an offi- cial after an argument over a demolition drive. An unre- pentant Akash was given a grand welcome by his sup- porters after his release from jail. He reportedly said, “In the BJP we have been taught, pehle aavedan, phir nivedan aur phir danadan” (first furnish an application & then request last- ly resort to attack). Modi said such incidents bring the party a bad name and are unacceptable. “If some- body commits a mistake, there should be a sense of apology as well,” he said. According to sources, the Prime Minister without taking any names said those support- ing unruly behaviour should also be sacked. Kailash Vijayvargiya was in the meet- ing when Modi deplored the incident. It is not known whether the strong observation from the Prime Minster would trigger any disciplinary action from the party or it may die down with the time. The BJP had recently expressed “displea- sure” over Pragya Singh Thakur’s praise of Nathuram Godse and Union Minister Giriraj Singh’s comments on ‘Iftar’ party organised by Chief Minister of Bihar in the State. BJP general secretary and spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said, “The Prime Minister has expressed his viewpoint very clearly that such behaviour cannot be tolerated. He has always been concerned about it. He has always said there should be no pride in the leaders or they should not behave in a way that harms the image of the party. It is not acceptable specially when you are peo- ple’s representative. This is not for one but for everyone”, Rudy said. Rudy quoted the Prime Minister as saying arrogant behaviour will not be tolerated and “action must be taken”. Close to the incident involving BJP MLA, another MLA and his supporters belonging to TRS had also attacked a woman forest official in Adilabad district in Telangana when she was car- rying out State Government ordered afforestation drive. The women officer was badly injured and hospitalised. Continued on Page 4 T he Centre on Tuesday termed as unconstitution- al the Uttar Pradesh Government’s move to include 17 communities belonging to Other Backward Classes (OBC) in the Scheduled Caste (SC) list and said the State Government should follow proper procedure and send the related proposal to the Centre. The Centre also said it is Parliament’s preroga- tive to shift one category of caste to another. Making this assertion in the Rajya Sabha after BSP member Satish Chandra Mishra raised the issue, Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot, who is leader of the House also, said the UP Government’s directive is “not proper.” He also reiterated the move was not in accordance with the Constitution as only Parliament has the right to do so. The Yogi Adityanath Government had on June 24 directed district magistrates and commissioners to issue caste certificates to 17 OBCs — Kashyap, Rajbhar, Dhivar, Bind, Kumhar, Kahar, Kewat, Nishad, Bhar, Mallah, Prajapati, Dhimar, Batham, Turha, Godia, Manjhi and Machua. As several Opposition par- ties associated themselves with Mishra’s concern over the UP Government move, Gehlot said if the State Government wants to go ahead with its proposal it should follow procedure and send a proposal to the Centre. “We would then consider it,” he said. He also said the order was not in accordance with the Constitution and asked the UP Government not to issue certificates based else the mat- ter may go to court. The Minister clarified shifting of one category to another caste category is the right of Parliament. In the past also three-four similar proposals were sent to Parliament, but not agreed upon, he noted and said the State Government should have followed proper proce- dure. Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu asked Gehlot to advise the State Government to follow due process. Raising the issue through a Zero Hour mention, Mishra said under Article 341 sub clause (2) of the Constitution, the power to make changes in the SC list lies only with Parliament. “Even President (of India) does not have the power to tinker, alter or make changes (in the list),” he said, adding these 17 castes will neither get benefits meant for OBCs nor SCs since a State Government has no power to make any alteration to the SC list. He said the BSP was in favour of including 17 castes in SC but only after following pre- scribed procedure and increas- ing SC quota proportionately. “The power of Parliament can- not be usurped by a State,” he said. The BSP leader wanted the Centre to issue an adviso- ry to the UP Government to withdraw the “unconstitution- al order” as it is harming castes. The BJP Government in UP is not the first to move on the 17 most backward castes in the OBC list. Continued on Page 4 A t least 40 people were killed and 75 others injured in various parts of the metropo- lis and elsewhere in Maharashtra on Tuesday, as Mumbai suburbs registered a record rainfall of 375.2 mm during 24 hours ending at 8.30 am and normal life remained crippled for the fourth consec- utive day. In a major rain-related incident, at least 22 people were killed and 78 others injured when a retaining wall crashed on 60 to 70 hutments at Kurar at Malad in north Mumbai. The injured were admitted to various hospitals, including Trauma Care Centre Jogeshwarui, Shatabdi Hospital, Kandivli, MV Desai Hospital and Cooper and KEM hospi- tals, in the city. Two persons Irfan S Khan (38) and Gulshad Sheikh (37), who had been trapped inside a SUV in the flooded Malad sub- way since Monday night, were found dead in the morning. The slum is located on the banks of Mithi river, levels of which rose precariously. The Indian Navy’s team of divers from INS Tanaji deployed rubber boats, life- jackets, lifebouys and rescued over a 1,000 people stranded in rising waters at Krantinagar slums in Kurla, north-east Mumbai. On a day when the Maharashtra Government declared a public holiday as a precautionary measure and the schools and colleges remained closed in the metropolis and neighbouring Thane and Palghar district, Mumbaikars had a brief respite from rains. But, their travails continued. Owing to continued water- logging reported from various parts of the island city and sub- urbs, there was major disrup- tion in the road, rail and air transport services. The only saving grace was that a major- ity of office-goers chose to remain confined to their homes, because of the public holiday declared by the State Government. Continued on Page 4 T he US Senate has passed a legislative provision that brings India at par with America’s NATO allies and countries like Israel and South Korea for increasing defence cooperation. The National Defence Authorisation Act or NDAA for the fiscal year 2020, that contained such a proposal was passed by the US Senate last week. Introduced by Senate India Caucus Co-Chair Senator John Cornyn with the support of Senate India Caucus Co-Chair Senator Mark Warner, the amendment provides for increased US-India defence cooperation in the Indian Ocean in the areas of human- itarian assistance, counterter- rorism, counter-piracy and maritime security. Last week, House India Caucus Co-Chair Brad Sherman, along with Congressmen Joe Wilson, Ami Bera, Ted Yoho, George Holding, Ed Case and Raja Krishnamoorthi introduced a similar legislative proposal to the House FY2020 NDAA that would greatly enhance the US- India relationship. The Bill would be signed into law after both the cham- bers of the US Congress — the House of Representatives and the Senate — passes it. The House is expected to take up its version of the NDAA some- time in July before legislators adjourn for the month-long August recess on July 29. In a statement, the Hindu American Foundation com- mended Senators Cornyn and Warner for their efforts in advancing the US-India strate- gic partnership. Continued on Page 4 I n a pan-India operation against bank loan defaulters, the CBI on Tuesday launched a massive crackdown by car- rying out searches at over 61 locations in 18 cities across 12 States after registering 17 cases involving embezzlement funds amounting to 1,139 crore. Over 300 officers drawn from various units of the agency swooped down in a synchronised fashion at over 61 locations on the basis of com- plaints received from various nationalised banks and inputs developed by the agency, offi- cials said. The figure, which stood at around 640 crore during the day, swelled to 1,139 crore as the agency continued filing of FIRs during the day and expanding its search operations. Braving the waterlogged streets of Mumbai due to inces- sant rains, the agency officials carried out searches at pro- moters and directors of Winsome Diamonds founded by absconding diamantaire Jatin Mehta who was booked in a fresh FIR registered under this operation. Continued on Page 4 A study done by the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) shows that the Centre’s flagship project Eastern Peripheral Expressways (EPE) — popularly known as Palwal- Kundli-Ghaziabad expressway — appears to be not utilised much by the commuters due to lack of proper facilities such as proper signs, fuel stations, toi- lets, dhaba facility among others. Study also shows that dri- vers due to lack of proper direc- tions rely upon online applica- tions like Google maps which has resulted in accidents. According to the report, more than 15 per cent users faced confusion while entering the Expressway and more than 70 per cent faced directional confusion in areas (at inter- change, National Highway (NH), State Highway (SH) ) around Expressway due to lack of proper display of signboards at entry and exit points. “Apart from proper sign- boards, retro reflective chevron signs at all merging/diverging curves is missing. Lateral rum- ble strips should be installed specifically before traffic merg- ing area on EPE to break the monotony of drivers. Further, it is necessary to provide truck lay-by on EPE for safety of parked vehicles and drivers of long hail trips,” says the report. Nearly 40,000 vehicles are using the 135 kilometres long expressway close to the esti- mated target of 50,000 vehicles per day. But only 13 per cent of heavy goods vehicles are using the expressway. The Government aimed to divert about 25,000 to 30,000 HMV’s (heavy motorised vehicles) per day to EPE to cut the air pol- lution in the city. Further on average, about 10,000 vehicles are entering the EPE from dif- ferent locations every day. Further, the study shows there is no such large impact on Delhi traffic after the opening of EPE as only 11-13 per cent reduction in the traffic has been witnessed, that too at some points such as at Tikri (13 per cent) and KGT Singhu Border, Narela (11 per cent) but at major sec- tions such as Badarpur bor- der, the traffic volume has increased to six per cent. “The Badarpur border has relatively low impact due to EPE as it’s from EPE entering at Palwal,” says the report. While the CRRI report and expert say the expressways have the capacity of 10-15 per cent more vehicles than the aimed target of 50,000 vehicles. “The main aim behind this project was to reduce air pollution in the Delhi by diverting the HMV’s vehicles, trucks, lorry, especially diesel vehicles. But as per survey, 61 per cent of the total vehicles passing the EPE are Light Motor Vehicles — cars. Moreover, the drivers need to be sensitised and encouraged to use this route,” said Ravindra Kumar, Principal Scientist and Head of the Department (HOD), Transportation Planning and Environment Division Traffic Building. However, a high ranking official of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) claimed that the Expressway is used largely by the commercial and other vehi- cles and the traffic volume has also increased from 40,000 to one lakh. The set up of fuel sta- tion has also been initiated. Continued on Page 4

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Asking BJP leaders to“behave” and not to be car-

ried away by the arrogance ofpower, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Tuesdaytook a serious note of partyGeneral Secretary KailashVijayvargiya’s son’s attack onthe Indore civic official with acricket bat saying “such behav-iour will not be tolerated”.

Addressing newly-electedparty MPs in the firstParliamentary Party meet afterthe Lok Sabha poll, the PMsaid, “Beta kisi ka bhi ho,man-mani nahin Chalegi..” (whoso-ever’s son it may be, bad behav-iour will not be tolerated).

Vijayvargiya’s son Akash, afirst-time MLA, was arrestedon June 26 for attacking an offi-cial after an argument over ademolition drive. An unre-pentant Akash was given agrand welcome by his sup-porters after his release fromjail. He reportedly said, “In theBJP we have been taught, pehleaavedan, phir nivedan aur phirdanadan” (first furnish anapplication & then request last-ly resort to attack).

Modi said such incidentsbring the party a bad name andare unacceptable. “If some-body commits a mistake, thereshould be a sense of apology aswell,” he said.

According to sources, thePrime Minister without takingany names said those support-ing unruly behaviour shouldalso be sacked. KailashVijayvargiya was in the meet-

ing when Modi deplored theincident.

It is not known whether thestrong observation from thePrime Minster would triggerany disciplinary action fromthe party or it may die downwith the time. The BJP hadrecently expressed “displea-sure” over Pragya SinghThakur’s praise of NathuramGodse and Union Minister

Giriraj Singh’s comments on‘Iftar’ party organised by ChiefMinister of Bihar in the State.

BJP general secretary andspokesperson Rajiv PratapRudy said, “ The PrimeMinister has expressed hisviewpoint very clearly thatsuch behaviour cannot betolerated. He has always beenconcerned about it. He hasalways said there should be no

pride in the leaders or theyshould not behave in a waythat harms the image of the party. It is not acceptablespecially when you are peo-ple’s representative. This is notfor one but for everyone”,Rudy said.

Rudy quoted the PrimeMinister as saying arrogantbehaviour will not be toleratedand “action must be taken”.

Close to the incidentinvolving BJP MLA, anotherMLA and his supportersbelonging to TRS had alsoattacked a woman forest officialin Adilabad district inTelangana when she was car-rying out State Governmentordered afforestation drive.The women officer was badlyinjured and hospitalised.

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al the Uttar PradeshGovernment’s move to include17 communities belonging toOther Backward Classes (OBC)in the Scheduled Caste (SC) listand said the State Governmentshould follow proper procedureand send the related proposalto the Centre. The Centre alsosaid it is Parliament’s preroga-tive to shift one category ofcaste to another.

Making this assertion inthe Rajya Sabha after BSPmember Satish ChandraMishra raised the issue, SocialJustice and EmpowermentMinister Thawar ChandGehlot, who is leader of theHouse also, said the UPGovernment’s directive is “notproper.” He also reiterated themove was not in accordancewith the Constitution as onlyParliament has the right to do so.

The Yogi AdityanathGovernment had on June 24directed district magistratesand commissioners to issuecaste certificates to 17 OBCs —Kashyap, Rajbhar, Dhivar, Bind,Kumhar, Kahar, Kewat, Nishad,

Bhar, Mallah, Prajapati,Dhimar, Batham, Turha,Godia, Manjhi and Machua.

As several Opposition par-ties associated themselves withMishra’s concern over the UPGovernment move, Gehlot saidif the State Government wantsto go ahead with its proposal itshould follow procedure andsend a proposal to the Centre.“We would then consider it,” he said.

He also said the order wasnot in accordance with theConstitution and asked theUP Government not to issuecertificates based else the mat-ter may go to court. TheMinister clarified shifting ofone category to another castecategory is the right ofParliament. In the past alsothree-four similar proposalswere sent to Parliament, but notagreed upon, he noted and saidthe State Government shouldhave followed proper proce-dure. Chairman M VenkaiahNaidu asked Gehlot to advisethe State Government to followdue process.

Raising the issue through aZero Hour mention, Mishrasaid under Article 341 subclause (2) of the Constitution,the power to make changes inthe SC list lies only withParliament. “Even President (ofIndia) does not have the powerto tinker, alter or make changes(in the list),” he said, addingthese 17 castes will neither getbenefits meant for OBCs norSCs since a State Governmenthas no power to make anyalteration to the SC list.

He said the BSP was infavour of including 17 castes inSC but only after following pre-scribed procedure and increas-ing SC quota proportionately.“The power of Parliament can-not be usurped by a State,” hesaid. The BSP leader wantedthe Centre to issue an adviso-ry to the UP Government towithdraw the “unconstitution-al order” as it is harming castes.

The BJP Government inUP is not the first to move onthe 17 most backward castes inthe OBC list.

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At least 40 people were killedand 75 others injured in

various parts of the metropo-lis and elsewhere inMaharashtra on Tuesday, asMumbai suburbs registered arecord rainfall of 375.2 mmduring 24 hours ending at 8.30am and normal life remainedcrippled for the fourth consec-utive day.

In a major rain-relatedincident, at least 22 peoplewere killed and 78 othersinjured when a retaining wallcrashed on 60 to 70 hutmentsat Kurar at Malad in northMumbai. The injured wereadmitted to various hospitals,including Trauma Care CentreJogeshwarui, Shatabdi Hospital,Kandivli, MV Desai Hospitaland Cooper and KEM hospi-tals, in the city.

Two persons Irfan S Khan(38) and Gulshad Sheikh (37),who had been trapped inside aSUV in the flooded Malad sub-way since Monday night, werefound dead in the morning.

The slum is located on thebanks of Mithi river, levels ofwhich rose precariously.

The Indian Navy’s team ofdivers from INS Tanajideployed rubber boats, life-jackets, lifebouys and rescued

over a 1,000 people stranded inrising waters at Krantinagarslums in Kurla, north-eastMumbai.

On a day when theMaharashtra Governmentdeclared a public holiday as aprecautionary measure and theschools and colleges remained

closed in the metropolis andneighbouring Thane andPalghar district, Mumbaikarshad a brief respite from rains.But, their travails continued.

Owing to continued water-logging reported from variousparts of the island city and sub-urbs, there was major disrup-

tion in the road, rail and airtransport services. The onlysaving grace was that a major-ity of office-goers chose toremain confined to theirhomes, because of the publicholiday declared by the StateGovernment.

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The US Senate has passed alegislative provision that

brings India at par withAmerica’s NATO allies andcountries like Israel and SouthKorea for increasing defencecooperation.

The National DefenceAuthorisation Act or NDAAfor the fiscal year 2020, thatcontained such a proposal waspassed by the US Senate lastweek.

Introduced by Senate IndiaCaucus Co-Chair Senator JohnCornyn with the support ofSenate India Caucus Co-ChairSenator Mark Warner, theamendment provides forincreased US-India defencecooperation in the IndianOcean in the areas of human-itarian assistance, counterter-rorism, counter-piracy andmaritime security.

Last week, House IndiaCaucus Co-Chair BradSherman, along withCongressmen Joe Wilson, AmiBera, Ted Yoho, GeorgeHolding, Ed Case and RajaKrishnamoorthi introduced asimilar legislative proposal tothe House FY2020 NDAA thatwould greatly enhance the US-India relationship.

The Bill would be signedinto law after both the cham-bers of the US Congress — theHouse of Representatives andthe Senate — passes it. TheHouse is expected to take up itsversion of the NDAA some-time in July before legislatorsadjourn for the month-longAugust recess on July 29.

In a statement, the HinduAmerican Foundation com-mended Senators Cornyn andWarner for their efforts inadvancing the US-India strate-gic partnership.

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In a pan-India operationagainst bank loan defaulters,

the CBI on Tuesday launcheda massive crackdown by car-rying out searches at over 61locations in 18 cities across 12States after registering 17 casesinvolving embezzlement fundsamounting to �1,139 crore.

Over 300 officers drawnfrom various units of theagency swooped down in asynchronised fashion at over 61locations on the basis of com-plaints received from variousnationalised banks and inputsdeveloped by the agency, offi-cials said. The figure, whichstood at around �640 croreduring the day, swelled to�1,139 crore as the agencycontinued filing of FIRs duringthe day and expanding itssearch operations.

Braving the waterloggedstreets of Mumbai due to inces-sant rains, the agency officialscarried out searches at pro-moters and directors ofWinsome Diamonds foundedby absconding diamantaireJatin Mehta who was booked ina fresh FIR registered underthis operation.

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Astudy done by the CentralRoad Research Institute

(CRRI) shows that the Centre’sf lagship project EasternPeripheral Expressways (EPE)— popularly known as Palwal-Kundli-Ghaziabad expressway— appears to be not utilisedmuch by the commuters due tolack of proper facilities such asproper signs, fuel stations, toi-lets, dhaba facility among others.

Study also shows that dri-vers due to lack of proper direc-tions rely upon online applica-tions like Google maps whichhas resulted in accidents.

According to the report,more than 15 per cent usersfaced confusion while enteringthe Expressway and more than70 per cent faced directional

confusion in areas (at inter-change, National Highway(NH), State Highway (SH) )around Expressway due to lackof proper display of signboardsat entry and exit points.

“Apart from proper sign-boards, retro reflective chevronsigns at all merging/divergingcurves is missing. Lateral rum-ble strips should be installedspecifically before traffic merg-ing area on EPE to break themonotony of drivers. Further,it is necessary to provide trucklay-by on EPE for safety ofparked vehicles and drivers oflong hail trips,” says the report.

Nearly 40,000 vehicles areusing the 135 kilometres longexpressway close to the esti-mated target of 50,000 vehiclesper day. But only 13 per cent ofheavy goods vehicles are usingthe expressway. The

Government aimed to divertabout 25,000 to 30,000 HMV’s(heavy motorised vehicles) perday to EPE to cut the air pol-lution in the city. Further onaverage, about 10,000 vehiclesare entering the EPE from dif-ferent locations every day.

Further, the study showsthere is no such large impacton Delhi traffic after theopening of EPE as only 11-13per cent reduction in thetraffic has been witnessed,that too at some points suchas at Tikri (13 per cent) andKGT Singhu Border, Narela(11 per cent) but at major sec-tions such as Badarpur bor-der, the traffic volume hasincreased to six per cent.

“The Badarpur border hasrelatively low impact due toEPE as it’s from EPE enteringat Palwal,” says the report.

While the CRRI reportand expert say the expresswayshave the capacity of 10-15 percent more vehicles than theaimed target of 50,000 vehicles.

“The main aim behindthis project was to reduce airpollution in the Delhi by

diverting the HMV’s vehicles,trucks, lorry, especially dieselvehicles. But as per survey, 61per cent of the total vehiclespassing the EPE are LightMotor Vehicles — cars.Moreover, the drivers need tobe sensitised and encouragedto use this route,” said RavindraKumar, Principal Scientist andHead of the Department(HOD), TransportationPlanning and EnvironmentDivision Traffic Building.

However, a high rankingofficial of the NationalHighway Authority of India(NHAI) claimed that theExpressway is used largely bythe commercial and other vehi-cles and the traffic volume hasalso increased from 40,000 toone lakh. The set up of fuel sta-tion has also been initiated.

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Adelegation led by VishwaHindu Parishad’s (VHP)

Delhi unit on Tuesday gave anultimatum of four days to thepolice to arrest the culpritsinvolved in vandalising a templein central Delhi’s Hauz Qaziarea.

The delegation led by work-ing president, Alok Kumar metPolice Commissioner AmulayaPatnaik on Tuesday .They alsoasked the Police commissionerto take measures for restoringthe confidence of the “ter-rorised” Hindus, which heclaimed were asked by the mis-creants to leave the area.

“The Hindu Samaj will takea call on its future course ofaction after waiting for four daysfor the police to arrest all thosewho were involved in desecrat-ing the temple,” Kumar said.

Kumar, who visited the tem-ple in Hauz Qazi area said he has been informed by asenior police officer that three people have been

arrested in connection with theincident.

“We have asked the PoliceCommissioner to scan theCCTV footage, which shouldhelp them in identifying thoseresponsible for desecrating thetemple and idols in it. Four dayshave been given to the police toarrest all those responsible for it,”he said.

The delegation communi-cated to Patnaik that there couldbe a “larger design” behind theincident as a quarrel over park-ing of a two-wheeler snow-balled into the desecration of thetemple.

“We also asked the police torestore confidence of Hindus liv-ing in the area since they are ter-rorised after the incident,”Kumar said.

The delegation also asked the Police Commissionerto replace the “desecrated” idols with “full rituals”, he added.

Tension prevailed in oldChawri Bazaar area on Mondayafter a fight over parking ascooter took a communal turn and a temple was van-dalised in the locality. Police aretrying to restore normalcythrough strict vigil and holdingmeetings with locals.

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Three people sustained bulletinjuries while two others

were injured due to stone pelt-ing after a minor alterationover a plot broke out betweentwo neighbours at Delhi’sNajafgarh Mitraon village onMonday night.

The injured has been iden-tified as Sudarshan (41), SamarSingh, both brothers, Naveen(21), Amarjeet (25) and Satish(51), all residents of Mitraon vil-lage. Police said that they arebeing treated in the hospital andtheir condition is said to be instable.

Police said that victimSatish and his nephew Naveensustained severe head injury asboth of them were hit by bricks,stone and wooden stick where-as victims Amarjit, Sudarshan

and Samar Singh sustained bul-let injuries. Police said thatthey have arrested the mainaccused Bijendra fromNajafgarh area.

According to a senior policeofficial, a police control room(PCR) call regarding a quarreland firing was received ataround 11.45 pm on Mondaynight.

Acting on the call, anEmergency Response Vehicle(ERV) was dispatched for thespot.

When police team reachedthe spot, it was found that theinjured have been shifted toVikas Hospital in Najafgarh,”said the senior police official.

“During initial investiga-tion, it was received that both,the assailants and the injured areneighbours who live in Mitraonvillage in close vicinity. They

were engaged in a minoraltercation and this minoraltercation resulted into aphysical fight following whichone or two assailants firedupon the victims,” said thesenior police official.

“The injured told thepolice that their neighboursBhoop Singh, Bijender, JaiBhagwan, came with sticks, bricks and some ofthem carrying fire armattacked on them before flee-ing away,” said the seniorpolice official.

“A case has been regis-tered under appropriate sec-tions. The reason of dispute isbeing verified. So far, there isno evidence to see this quar-rel as gang war,” said thesenior police official addingthat further investigation isgoing on.

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It seems tall claims ofDelhi Police to maintain

law and order in thenational Capital areexposed as yet again threearmed men allegedlyrobbed a chemist shopand fled with around one lakhrupees in South Delhi on earlyhours of Tuesday.

According to ChinmoyBiswal, the DeputyCommissioner of Police(DCP), South East district, apolice control room (PCR) callwas received at around 5 amregarding a robbery inSanjeevni Chemist shop atSarai Jullena village.

“Acting on the call, a policeteam rushed to spot. On spot,it was found that the shop wasat a little deserted area. Whilein early hours around 4 am,taking advantage of there beingno people around, three armedmen came inside the shop,

which opens round the clock,and took away the cash in thecounter amounting to near-ly one lakh rupees and alsotook away two mobile phonesand fled on a bike,” said theDCP.

“Police teams have recov-ered CCTV footage of theincident in which one personwas wearing helmet and twopersons covered their faceswith handkerchiefs to hidetheir identity. The robberscan be seen pointing guns atthe cashier and fleeing awaywith the money,” said theDCP.

“A case of robbery undersection 392 of Indian Penal

Code (IPC) has beenregistered and severalpolice teams havebeen formed to devel-op clues to nab theculprits,” said the DCPadding that furtherinvestigation is goingon.

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Delhi Police has arrested aman who had allegedly

murdered both his wives inSouth Delhi on June 27.

The accused has been iden-tified as Jamshed Alam (35), aresident of district Araria, Biharand was living in Delhi for lastthree years. Police said that onJune 27, the accused hadallegedly strangulated his wives,Ismat Parveen (34) and Jabeena(45) with duppata (stall) andlater locked them up insidetheir house in Delhi’s Jaitpur

area before fleeing with his son. According to Chinmoy

Biswal, the DeputyCommissioner of Police(DCP), South East Delhi, during initial investigation itwas found that Alam has fledto his home town in Bihar fol-lowing which a police teamwent to his native place in Biharwhere a series of raids wereconducted.

“However he had againfled back to Delhi. Later a tipoff was received that localAlam is going to meet one ofhis relatives in Bara Hindu Rao

area,” said the DCP.“Acting on the tip-off, a

raid was conducted and theaccused Alam was arrested inthe morning. During inter-rogation he disclosed that hiswives had been having quar-rels with him and each otheras well,” said the DCP.

“He was fed up and onthe day of incident he stran-gulated his wife Parveen firstand then second wife Zabnaand ran away after lockingthe house,” said the DCPadding that further investi-gation is on.

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Sudhir Kumar Singh hasjoined as the Senior

Superintendent of Police (SSP)of Ghaziabad here on Tuesday.

Singh, a 2015 batch IPSofficer joined police service asPPS officer of UP state servicesin 1992, joined as SSP

Ghaziabad on Tuesday. After joining, Singh said

that Ghaziabad is not a newplace to him.

He had been circle officerhere and having experience ofpatrolling in the large areas ofthis district including toughareas of Loni where migrantsmajority resides in thick den-

sity. After serving as the Circle

Officer, additional superinten-

dent of police in various dis-tricts including Ghaziabad,Hapur, Gonda, Meerut as cir-cle officer and additional super-intendent of police, Singhserved Muzaffar Nagar asSuperintendent of Police (SP)where he conducted the par-liamentary election success-fully added the officer.

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The mercury in the nation-al Capital dipped margin-

ally on Tuesday owning tomoisture-laden easterly windsthat have created favourableconditions for the onset ofmonsoon in the next 72 hours,officials said. Senior scientistat the Indian MeteorologicalDepartment, KuldeepSrivastava said very light rainis likely on Wednesday andthereafter, precipitation activ-ity is likely to increase.

“Easterly winds have cre-ated favourable conditions forthe onset of monsoon in theDelhi-NCR region. The windsystem may reach the city inthe next 72 hours,” he said.

The SafdarjungObservatory, which providesofficial figures for the city,recorded a high of 39.4 degreesCelsius, three notches morethan normal, and a low of 30degrees Celsius. Humidity lev-els oscillated between 43 and 57per cent.

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Lal Kuan area in the sensitiveWalled City continued to

simmer a day after 100-year-old Durga temple was dese-crated by a mob comprising ofpeople of a particular commu-nity. Strong posse of armedpolice personnel CentralArmed Police Forces (CAPF)are stationed in and around thearea as the senior police officersof Delhi Police are trying toassuage the feelings by reach-ing out to the elders of the twocommunities. However, resi-dents in the area said thatsome miscreants are trying toescalate the situation.

Also known as wholesalehub for hardware products,Hauz Qazi in old Delhiremained closed on Tuesday.The entire area resembled afortress with police and CAPFsdeployed in large numbers.

Delhi Police on Tuesdayarrested two persons andapprehended a minor for riot-ing in connection with thecommunal clashes that vitiat-ed densely populated Lal Kuanand is adjoining areas.

Police on Tuesday tried tonormalize the situation by urg-ing the shop owners to openthe market but protesters force-fully asked them to keep their

shutter down until the matteris resolved.

Union Minister andChandni Chowk MP Dr HarshVardhan visited the affectedarea to take stock of the situa-tion. Police had appealed to thepeople to maintain peace andrestore normalcy in the area.

Dr Vardhan described theincident as “unfortunate” andstated that those behind theugly incident in defiling thetemple would be punished.Later in the evening formerUnion Minister Vijay Goel toovisited the area and held apeace talk with both the com-munities.

“It is very unfortunate andpainful. The kind of thingdone to the temple is unfor-givable. I have been told thatthe police is already in action.Culprits will be arrested soonand punished. I appeal to thepeople to maintain harmony,”the Union minister stated.

“Despite police presence,the situation is not normal.People get agitated at the dropof a hat. The slogans raised byboth sides are demeaning,”said a resident.

Lallan (50), who works asa labour in the area for past 30years said, this is the businesspeak season due to 15 Augustbut this clash has severely

affected our work. “We aredaily wage workers but fromlast two days we are earningnothing as the shops areclosed,” said Lallan.

While 57 year old Shahidwho lives in the area from hischildhood and runs a garmentbusiness said, “miscreants areturning the situation worse. Weonly want peace and commu-nal harmony.”

Delhi Police and residentsappealed for calm on Tuesdayeven as small groups of pro-testers continued to raisederogatory slogans.

However, Rahul Kashyap(26) claimed that, the membersof other community peltedstones on their houses andhurt their religious sentimentsby vandalizing the temple.“They are the one who esca-lated the issue. We want justiceand safety from the miscreants,”said Kashyap.

Another resident of theDurga mandir street, AniketMehra claimed that, one minorboy who alarmed us about themob of 400-500 members ofother community, is missingfrom Sunday. We are unable totrack him down.

On Monday, tension pre-vails in the highly sensitive

Walled City area of the nation-al Capital after clashes eruptedbetween two groups belongingto different communities overparking issues. It soon took anugly turn after rumours spreadthat a youth from a particularcommunity has been lynchedby a mob. Enraged over this, amob vandalised a Shiva Templein the Lal Kuan area after rais-ing inflammatory religious slo-gans.

However, JamshedSiddiqui, who was heading themuslim community, said, “Wehave spoken to each other onthe issue and decided that the

Aman Committee would bearthe expenses to renovate thevandalised temple”.

“We want peace in thearea as it was earlier. We con-demn the incident and theculprits, who have vandalisedthe temple, must be punished,”Siddiqui said.

Bittoo, head of DurgaMandir Street, said, “Peoplefrom both the communities areliving here happily from pastmany decades. The market willbe opened from Wednesdayand the locals will bring backpeace with the help of eachother”.

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With a motive to makeDelhi self sufficient to

meet water demands, DelhiCabinet gave nod to its pilotwater conservation in the RiverYamuna floodplains project.On Tuesday, Delhi ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwalannounced that the projectwill not only solve the presentwater crisis but will also makeDelhi future ready.

“We regularly keep read-ing and seeing that the worldis heading towards seriouswater crisis. And about Delhialso that water table are deplet-ing fast,” said Kejriwal.“Keeping all this in mind, theDelhi Government has clearedan ambitious project for waterconservation in the YamunaFloodplains and it has beenapproved by the Cabinet today.We want to end water shortagein Delhi,” CM Kejriwal saidwho also holds the portfolio ofwater minister.

Notably, the Government

has intended the ground waterrecharging this Monsoon.

According to Governmentofficials, this work will be onexperimental basis and theadvantage of the experimentalbasis initiation this Monsoonwill be that the Governmentwill have a firm basis to precedeon the full project next year,since it will have a better ideathrough the pilot thisMonsoon. “The result of thepilot will help us form a clearidea about the success of thisproject, though the report of theproject consultant and IIT Delhiindicate that this project will bea big success, since the Yamunahas a vast floodplain and has abig potential for water conser-vation and through this projectwe can solve the water shortageof Delhi,” Kejriwal added.

Elaborating the projectdetails, water will be conservedin stretches from Palla tillWazirabad on eco-friendlybasis and no construction oruse of cement will be involved.

“Remarkably, the regular

flow of Yamuna will not betouched at all,” Delhi govern-ment official said.

There will be creation ofsmall water ponds and whenYamuna overflows duringMonsoon, then the overflowingwater will fill these ponds.“Water will then percolatedown and it will spread lead-ing to an increase in the watertable of these areas,” quotedChief Minister Office’s release.

“The good thing in Delhiis the flow of water fromYamuna slope is towards thecity and not the other wayround, therefore conservationof rain water is possible. Hadthe slope been towardsYamuna, then the rain waterwould have flown towards theriver. The project consultanthas also indicated the siteswhere conservation is possible,”Kejriwal said.

Notably, the land belongsto farmers and the Delhi gov-ernment will use this land onrent. Delhi Government hasformed a five-member com-

mittee of officers and asked them to give report byMonday.

“It is proposed to take landon lease from the land ownersfor the initial period of 3 Years.The land will be utilised toretain excess spill over floodwater in farm ponds, shallowponds, recharge structuresthrough non-invasive inter-ventions so that ground watercould be recharged and ground

water levels could beimproved,” Delhi government’sstatement quoted.

It is important to mentionhere that after the cabinet deci-sion, Delhi government willrequire the concurrence ofsome Central governmentagencies, about which theUnion Jal Shakti MinisterGajendra Singh Shekhawat wasinformed in the recent meetingwith him.

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Day after the Delhi BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) alleged

massive scam in the classroomconstruction project, DeputyChief Minister Manish Sisodiasaid that the Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) is ready to spend �25lakh for each room in aGovernment building if thatmeet the objective of impartingquality education. Sisodia saidhe is committed to improvingDelhi’s education quality and heis not going to step back evenif somebody wants to sendhim to jail.

Education Minister Sisodiasaid that he is committed tocreating state-of-the-art infra-structure in governmentschools and will not step backeven if he is sent to jail.

Notably, citing a RTIresponse, Delhi BJP chief

Manoj Tiwari claimed that theAam Aadmi Party (AAP) con-structed 12,782 classrooms at acost of Rs 2,892 crore and thiscould have done by spendingjust Rs 800 crore.

At an inspection of aGovernment school inMandawali in East Delhi,Sisodia said the BJP’s Delhi unitwas making “unfounded alle-gations” of corruption againstthe AAP Government.

He explained that Rs 2,892crore included the cost of con-structing of state-of-the-artclassrooms, computer labs, lab-oratories, staircases, musicrooms, libraries, corridors,playgrounds, swimming pools,toilets, water and electricitysupply systems, waste watertreatment systems among oth-ers.

“The BJP does not wantthat the kids of the poor peo-ple migrated to the nationalcapital from states like Biharand Uttar Pradesh in search oflivelihood, to get quality edu-cation in Delhi governmentschools,” Sisodia added.

He said he was happy that his government was cre-ating modern infrastructureto provide quality education tothe children and the resultsprove it.

“Delhi has a pass percent-age of 95 per cent, no otherstate boasts of such an achieve-ment,” the AAP leader said.

“We will spend Rs 25 lakhper room if that fulfils ourobjective of providing qualityeducation to poor students. Iam committed to it... Even ifsomebody wants to send me tojail, I am not going to stepback,” he said.

He also claimed that “theStanding Committee of theBJP-ruled South DelhiMunicipal Corporation recent-ly came out with a proposal toconstruct 43 rooms in a schoolat a cost of Rs 10.73 crore,which means Rs 24.95 lakh perroom”.

“And, this estimate doesn’tinclude the cost of furniture,electricity fittings, water har-

vesting systems, sewage treat-ment plant, corridors, labequipment etc. This means it isnot the AAP but the BJP whichis indulging in corruption,” heclaimed.

During the inspection,Ishika, a Class 12 student, hadearlier said, girl students wouldbring mats to sit as there wereno chairs and desks but “all ofthat has changed now”.

A teacher said the staffwould un-install fans and tube-lights before summer vaca-tions and re-install the after theclasses reassembled.

“We have got a boundarywall now and as a result, inci-dents of theft have come down.We would bring water bottlesfrom home as there was noclean drinking water in schools.Now, we have revers osmosissystems installed on everyfloor,” she said.

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Delhi University is likely torelease its second cut-off list

for undergraduate courses onthe night of 3rd July or on July4th. University officials told ThePioneer that the document ver-ification process will take placefrom 4th July to 6th July after therelease of second cut off.

Notably, women collegeshave recorded maximum admis-sions soon after the release offirst cutoff list with three of topfive named - Miranda House,Gargi and Lady Shriram havecompleted 800 admissions each.As per university data, over9,100 students have takenadmissions to Delhi University(DU) till Saturday.

The DU announced its firstcut-off list for admission toundergraduate courses lateThursday night, with HinduCollege pegging the highestscore of 99 per cent for PoliticalScience Honours — a marginalincrease over last year.

As per the university offi-cials, there may not be a secondcut-off list for some courses inMiranda House and HinduCollege. In Shri Ram College ofCommerce (SRCC), of the 135seats in BA (Honours)

Economics, 130 have been filledso far while 266 of the 552 seatshave been filled up in BCom(Honours).

Versity officials also hintedthat many top colleges in northcampus may not release a sec-ond cutoff for most sought aftersubjects , instance - PoliticalScience as they have alreadyfilled up their quota of seats inthese courses. In total more thannineteen thousand seats werefilled after the first list wasreleased out of a total of close to62000 seats in UG courses.

Delhi University hadincreased ten percent seats thisyear to accommodate the 10 per-cent Economically WeakerSection (EWS) quotaannounced by the governmentof India.

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With the monsoonapproaching, South

Delhi Municipal Corporation(SDMC) has speed up theprocess of desilting of its drainsto avoid water logging.

The civic body claimed tohave achieved 95 per cent of itstarget in desilting drainageunder its jurisdiction.

SDMC mayor Sunita Kangda on Tuesdayinspected some of the drains and directed officials to expedite the de-siltingprocess.

She also directed to repairthe drains situated atAmbedkar Nagar and RajpurKhurd.

The civic body is respon-sible of cleaning drains with amaximum width of 60 feetbesides a few big drains. Thereare other agencies in the citywhich is responsible to main-tain drains. Public WorksDepartment (PWD) maintainsdrains which are 60 feet wideand above.

The Irrigation and FloodControl (I&FC)?department isresponsible to maintain largerdrains.

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Electricity demand in thenational Capital touched

an all-time high of 7,409megawatt (MW) on Tuesday.Delhi’s peak power demandfirst crossed the 6000 MWbarrier in 2016 (6216 MW onJuly 1) while in this year, thedemand crossed the mark on25 days.

BRPL, BYPL and TataPower Delhi Distribution (TataPower-DDL) successfully metall-time high power demandsof 3159 MW, 1686 MW and2136 in their respective areaswithout any network con-straint.

Sanjay Banga, CEO ofTata Power-DDL said, “Thissummer season, the peakdemand in Delhi is increasingwith each passing day. We areexpecting the Delhi peakdemand to touch 7500 MWand Tata Power-DDL’s to cross 2250 MW in the comingdays.

However, we have madeadequate arrangements ofpower of up to 2500 MW,along with contingency plan-ning, through long-term tie-ups and power bankingarrangements, and upgraded

network to ensure regular sup-ply in our area of distribution.

The peak power demandwas recorded 7241 MW onMonday. This phenomenonload growth in Delhi has beenpossible on the back of anadvanced distribution networkand massive reduction inAggregate Transmission andCommercial (AT&C) losses.To strengthen the distributionnetwork, BSES discoms invest-ed over �800 crore (BRPL ~ �525 crore, BYPL �300 crore) inFY 2018-2019 and ramped-upthe network capacity by around750 MVA.

BSES discoms also installed (new) and augment-ed around 600 distributiontransformers and laid over 650Kms of cable to strengthen thenetwork.

“To meet today’s powerchallenges and to get a grip onso many varied and dynamic

variables, BSES uses a mix ofadvanced statistical forecastingmodels, combined with state-of-the-art weather forecastingsolutions, including ArtificialIntelligence (AI) and MachineLearning and rich domainexpertise provided by IMD-POSCO.

These help the discombuild advanced models, which leads to high accuracyplanning and huge saving ofman-hours and time,” said aBSES official.

Delhi’s peak powerdemand is more than thrice ofthat of Kolkata and is also morethan the power demand ofboth Mumbai and Chennaiput together.

According to experts, running of air conditioners,coolers and fans is the mainreason behind the increase inpower demand in the nation-al Capital.

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Leaders of the BJP’s Delhi unit onTuesday filed a police complaint seek-

ing registration of an FIR against officialsand contractors involved in the construc-tion of classrooms of Delhi Governmentschools at rates five times higher than theusual cost.

The Delhi unit of the party hadMonday claimed that there was a �2,000crore “scam” in construction of classroomsby the ruling AAP Government.

The complaint, filed by Delhi BJPmedia relation head Neelkant Bakshi andspokesperson Harish Khurana, asked thepolice to book persons responsible for thescam - whether it was against ministers,officials or contractors.

The complaint was filed with the NewDelhi district police.

Citing an RTI reply, Tiwari had onMonday claimed that the AAPGovernment constructed 12,782 class-rooms at a cost of �2,892 crore and thiscould have been done by spending just�800 crore.

He had also demanded the resignationof Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, who isincharge of Education department.

The AAP dispensation reacted sharplyto the charge with Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal and Sisodia both challenging theBJP to arrest them if they thought therewas any “scam” in construction of class-rooms.

Sisodia had challenged Tiwari to gethim arrested or apologise to people forlying to them.

Khurana, whose RTI query providedammunition to the BJP, said the DelhiGovernment spent �24.86 lakh on con-

struction of each classroom.Reacting to this, Sisodia claimed

that the BJP ruled South Delhi Municipal Corporation recently came upwith a proposal to construct 43 rooms in a school at a cost of �10.73 crore, whichmeant �24.95 lakh were earmarked asexpenditure for each classroom.

In a tweet, Khurana said Sisodia’s maths was weak and asserted thatthe per square feet rate of SDMC classrooms was �2,784 as compared to�8,800 in case of Delhi Governmentschools.

“And also in MCD, two toilet blocksand staircase is included in this cost ... Sobetter AAP govt should remove Sisodia fora free and fair enquiry ...And sisodiashould not look for excuse but shouldexplain his corruption,” Khurana said inanother tweet.

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The BJP in Telangana aims toenroll an additional 12 lakh

members during the member-ship drive which would bekicked off in the city by partychief Amit Shah on July 6.

The partys senior state unitleaders discussed the mem-bership campaign, the visit ofShah and preparations for themunicipal polls to be held nextmonth at a meeting Tuesday.

"All those who contested asMLAs and MPs, they should beinvolved in the membershipcampaign and try to bringnew blood, new people to theparty. Existing (membership) is18 lakhs. It should be 30 lakhs,with an addition of 12 lakhs,BJP MLC N Ramachander Raotold PTI.

The membership drivewould be held till August 11from July 6.

During his visit, Shah isexpected to guide the leaderson strengthening the partyorganisation towards the goal

of forming government in thestate in 2023, BJP sources said.

The party aims to winmajority of municipalitiesamong the total 136 in theurban local body polls, Raosaid.

The party feels that it hasbetter chances to do well in theurban areas.

Though BJP could winonly one of the 119 seats in theAssembly polls held inDecember last year, it pulled offsurprise gains in Lok Sabhaelections, bagging four of the 17constituencies.

On Tuesday, BJYM, theyouth wing of BJP, organised aprotest against "exorbitant" feesbeing collected by some "cor-porate schools" in Hyderabadand elsewhere in Telangana,BJP sources said.

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From Page 1“Elevating India to non-

NATO status is vital, now morethan ever, for the US, for India,and for the entire region,” saidHAF managing director SamirKalra.

“Whether we do that withfree standing legislation orwhether we do that with anamendment to the NationalDefense Authorization Actmatters, I think, very little.What matters is that we recog-nise the importance, in a tan-gible way, of the US-Indiaalliance,” CongressmanSherman said at the HAFCapitol Hill Reception lastweek.

The US recognised India asa “Major Defence Partner” in2016, a designation that allowsIndia to buy more advancedand sensitive technologies fromAmerica at par with that of theUS’ closest allies and partners,and ensures enduring cooper-ation into the future.

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From Page 1In 2005, the SP govern-

ment of Mulayam Singh Yadavpassed the first order to include11 of these castes, but theorder was stayed and the pro-posal sent to the Centre.Subsequently, the BSPGovernment of Mayawatiquashed the notification.

The BSP later said thesecastes could be included in theSC list provided the SC quotais increased. The SPGovernment of Akhilesh Yadavcleared the inclusion proposalahead of the 2017 Assemblyelections but it was challengedand is in court. Mishra saidArticle 341 provides that thePresident specify castes,

races or tribes or parts of orgroups to be Scheduled Castesafter Parliament may by lawinclude or exclude from the listof Scheduled Castes. The moveby the Adityanath Governmentcomes ahead of by- elections to12 Assembly seats in the state.

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ident Amit Shah and its work-ing president JP Nadda werefelicitated in the meeting,Parliamentary Affairs MinisterPralhad Joshi told reporters.

Joshi said Modi will launchthe BJP’s membership drivefrom Varanasi on July 6 duringwhich, the Prime Minister toldparty workers, at least fivetrees should be planted in

every booth across the country. Modi described the plan-

tation exercise as “panchvati”,which according to theRamayana, was the place whereLord Ram, Sita and Laxman had stayed in exile for14 years.

In his address, the PrimeMinister also asked party MPsto ensure their presence inParliament during the ongoingsession. He expressed his

unhappiness at the poor atten-dance of party MPs when tripletalaq bill was introduced in theLok Sabha, joshi said.

While Modi will launchthe membership drive fromVaranasi, Shah will flag it offin Telangana and other partyleaders in different parts of thecountry.

July 6 is the birth anniver-sary of BJP ideologue SyamaPrasad Mookerjee.

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This was the 16th FIRagainst Mehta accusing him ofallegedly defaulting Rs 202crore from Exim Bank. He isaccused of allegedly swindlingfunds to the tune of Rs 6,500crore.

The searches in Mumbaialso covered two other firmsbooked in separate FIRs on acomplaint by Union Bank ofIndia. The CBI searched fiveplaces in connection with Rs 57crore loss caused to the bank bySupamad Trading Pvt Ltd andone place was searched in con-nection with Asuti TradingPvt Ltd for causing loss of Rs50 crore to the bank. Twoplaces were searched in Delhiand Mumbai in connectionwith Asuti Trading.

By evening, the agencyhad already registered 17 FIRsacross the country and theprocess of registering more isgoing on, the officials said.

The searches were beingconducted in Delhi, Mumbai,Ludhiana, Thane, Valsad, Pune,Palani, Gaya, Gurugram,Chandigarh, Bhopal, Surat andKolar, among others, they said.

Other companies whichhave been booked by theagency in separate FIRs includeLudhiana-based Supreme Tex

Mart for causing a loss of Rs143.25 crore to State Bank ofIndia (SBI), Bengaluru-basedAegan Batteries for loss of Rs98.75 crore to SBI, Gaya-basedRamnanndi Hotels and ResortsLtd for loss of Rs 131.79 croreto Central Bank of India andNoida-based Naftogaz IndiaPvt Ltd for causing loss of 93crore to Corporation Bank.

Delhi-based SL ConsumerProducts Ltd has been bookedby the CBI for causing loss toUnion Bank of India to thetune of Rs 55 crore, Aligarh-based Samprash Foods Ltd forloss Rs 60 crore to Union Bankof India, Chandigarh-basedInternational Mega Food ParkLtd for loss of Rs 40.17 crore toSIDBI, Bhopal-based RanjeetAutomobiles for loss of 34.36crore to Bank of Baroda, Surat-based Jalpa Textiles Pvt Ltd forloss of Rs 28 crore to Bank ofBaroda, the agency has allegedin the FIRs.

Three FIRs pertaining toalleged irregularities in dis-bursal of housing loans in aUnion Bank of India branch inBhubaneswar were also regis-tered by the agency in whichsenior bank officials have beennamed as accused. The loansresulted in the loss of Rs 24.17crore to the bank. Searcheswere conducted at nine placesin Odisha in connection withthe housing loan frauds, theyadded.

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From Page 1“NHAI has installed prop-

er digital signs on both enterand exit points. Besides, prop-er signboards have also beeninstalled on the EPE with direc-tions to clear confusion of thedriver. Further, the expresswayis just two hours route so peo-ple do not need any dhabafacility like Murthal,” said anofficial requesting anonymity.

The NHAI official furtheradded about six fuel stationswill be set up on the EPE on 39km (left and right), 83 km (leftand right side of the express-ways) and the other two on 95km. “The construction of thesefuel stations has been startedand will be completed by nexttwo months. Toilet facilities areavailable at toll booth,” addedthe official.

The six lane expresswaywas inaugurated in May 2018by Prime the MinisterNarendra Modi.

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Coimbatore: A fuel tank fell offfrom a Tejas aircraft, which wason a sortie, into an agricultur-al field in the city's outskirtsearly Tuesday, police said.

Defence sources inChennai confirmed that a fueltank from Tejas aircraft fell andsaid "all (was) safe", indicatingthat there were no injuries.

Agriculture labourers inIrugur village were shocked tosee the 1200-litre petrol tankfall from the sky. It caused athree-foot deep crater and aminor fire, the police added.

However, the combat jetlanded safely in the nearbySulur Air Force station, theysaid. Officials of the Indian AirForce, they said. IAF officialssaid the cause of the accidentis being investigated. PTI

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ASpiceJet flight from Jaipurskidded and overshot the

main runway while landing atthe Mumbai airport amidheavy rains on Monday,although none of the passen-gers were hurt in the incident,an airline spokesperson said.

The incident occurred onMonday around 11.45 pmwhen the aircraft skidded andovershot the main runway, asource said.

"On July 1, SpiceJet Boeing737-800 aircraft operated flightSG 6237 from Jaipur toMumbai. There was heavy rainin Mumbai and the aircraft,after landing, overshot the run-way. Passengers were deplanednormally. There was no injuryto either the passengers or thecrew," the spokesperson said.

Due to the incident, a sec-ondary runway is in operationat the airport currently.

Many subsequent flightshave been diverted to other air-ports such as Ahmedabad andBengaluru, sources said.

"A Korean Air flight KE655which was coming from Seoulto Mumbai has been divertedto Ahmedabad due to the inci-

dent and bad weather condi-tions," the sources said.

Similarly, a Lufthansa flightLH756, which was comingfrom Frankfurt, and an AirIndia flight AI331, which wascoming from Bangkok had tobe diverted to other airports.

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The Delhi High Courtrebuked the Bihar

Government on Tuesday for'humiliating, harassing and vic-timising' an IAS officerwho took a tough standagainst the transportmafia despite threats tohis life.

The court directedthe central governmentto initiate inter-cadretransfer of the 2013-batch IAS officer JitendraGupta forthwith and issue theorder to shift him out of Biharcadre, completing the processwithin four weeks.

It also ordered the state topay Rs 5 lakh to the officer ascompensation within fourweeks along with other dues,saying the court cannot undo

the harm done to him but theamount awarded would applysome balm to his wounds.

A bench of Justices VipinSanghi and Jyoti Singh said ifthe court failed to protect a

man who had thenerve to stand upagainst the mafia andthe state machinery,they would be doinggreat disservice to thesystem and setting abad precedent, whereno officer would gath-

er courage take on the wrong-doers.

Gupta, who was repre-sented through senior advocateSachin Datta and lawyerSourabh Ahuja, had soughttransfer to Haryana allegingthreat to his life for actingtough against the transportmafia there.

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Apolice officer fromDhanbad has been sus-

pended after a purported videoshowed him dancing with a girlat a bar in West Bengal'sAsansol.

"The officer-in-charge ofMahuda police station inDhanbad, Nand Kishore Singh,was suspended on Mondaynight and sent to police linesafter the video surfaced,"Dhanbad SeniorSuperintendent of Police Kaushal Kisor toldreporters.

The SSP said the policeofficer was suspended afterpreliminary investigation by adeputy superintendent of policefound him guilty, he said.

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Department employees sus-tained injuries in an attackallegedly by a group of tribalsin a village in Telangana, daysafter the brutal assault of awoman forest officer that trig-gered an outrage.

Police said the two Forestpersonnel came under attack atTimmampet village inBhadradri-Kothagudem dis-trict Monday night after theyobjected to ploughing of forestlands.

The injured have beenadmitted to a local governmenthospital, a police official said.

Concerned over theattacks, representatives ofForest Department employeesunions Tuesday met ministerfor forests Allola IndrakaranReddy and sought setting upFast Track Courts to punish theperpetrators and also to invokethe Preventive Detention Actagainst such attackers. PTI

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Four labourers were onTuesday killed and two oth-

ers injured when a water tankcollapsed at an under-con-struction building in Maharashtra's Nashik district,police said.

The incident happened ataround 8:30am in SomeshwarColony on Gangapur Roadhere, an official said.

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In a bid to check incidents ofeve-teasing, a Government-

run school in West Bengal'sMalda district has come upwith a directive to allow boysand girls to be present only onalternate days in a week.

The decision by the GirijaSundari Vidya Mandir inHabibpur area of Malda Sadarsubdivision drew flak fromthe administration, whichtermed the move "bizarre" andcalled for its withdrawal.

Education Minister ParthaChatterjee ordered an inquiry.

"Such a decision can neverbe supported. We have askedthe officials to inquire into thematter and it should be imme-diately withdrawn," Chatterjeesaid.

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The much-awaited monsoonhas arrived in some parts of

Himachal Pradesh on Tuesdayand it will advance in theremaining parts of the hill-statewithin the next one or twodays, the meteorologicaldepartment said.

It said the entire state islikely to receive widespreadrainfall from July 4 to July 8 asa result of the advancement ofthe monsoon.

Monsoon has advanced inSirmaur, Shimla, Solan andKinnaur districts, an officialsaid. Rainfall occurred in iso-lated places of the state sinceyesterday, with Sangrah received38 mm of rains, followed byBerthin 30 mm, Baijnath 13mm, Dehra Gopipur andGhumarwin 9 mm each.

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Aseven-year-old girl wasabducted and raped by an

unidentified person in ShastriNagar here triggering protestsby locals, police said.

As tension prevailed in thearea, mobile internet serviceswere suspended on Tuesday in13 police station areas of Jaipurand security stepped up toprevent any flare-up, they said.

The girl was found near herhouse on Monday night andwas taken to a local hospitalwhere the doctors referred herto J K Lone hospital. Her con-dition is stated to be stable.

"The girl was abducted bya motorcycle-borne man andtaken to a nearby place whereshe was raped," a police officialsaid.

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With shards of beer bottlesposing a threat to wild

animals in Mount Abu, the dis-trict administration haslaunched an initiative to pro-mote beer cans instead of bot-tles.

Sub Divisional Officer(Mount Abu) RavindraGoswami told PTI that emptybeer bottles were usuallydumped in forest areas and water bodies in large num-bers.

When Nakki Lake wascleaned sometime back, thou-sands of empty beer bottleswere recovered from it andthree tractors had to be used toshift the bottles, he added.

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UPA chairperson SoniaGandhi on Tuesday

opposed the Railway Ministry'sproposal for modernising thecoach factory in her con-stituency Rae Bareli alleging itwas the "first step towards pri-vatisation". The Railways, sub-sequently, rejected her chargesaying the factory will remainunder Government control.

Speaking in the Lok Sabhaduring the Zero Hour, Soniasaid this is nothing but sellingcountry's assets to private com-panies, leaving many unem-ployed. Sonia said that latestproposal of railways on corpo-ratisation is to privatise therailways and handover the hugeassets at cheap prices to certainset of private players.

Slamming the move to cor-poratise railways' productionunits, Sonia accused theGovernment of selling the coun-try's assets to private players ata throwaway price. "Thosewho don't understand the realmeaning of corporatisation.... Itis actually the first step towardsprivatisation. They are sellingthe country's assets to a hand-ful of private players at a throw-

away price. This will leave thou-sands unemployed," she said.

But, the Railways main-tained that "corporatisation wasnot privatisation". "What rail-ways means by corporatisationis making a Government PSU— the Indian Railway RollingStock Company— under theMinistry of Railways and shift-ing the production units includ-ing MCF, Rae Bareli to it," anofficial said.

"This means they willremain under Government con-trol but will be better managed.This will help drive technologypartnership and modernisa-tion," the official said.

Sonia, the leader ofCongress Parliamentary Party,was the first one to speak dur-ing the Zero Hour. As she rosefrom her seat, the entireOpposition was seen thumpingthe desks. Taking a dig at the

Government, she said the unitwas started during the UPAregime to promote "Make inIndia", which has been taken upby the Modi Government.

She said that the MCF is themost modern factory of theIndian Railways and manufac-tures best coaches at cheapestrates. "The Government hasinvested heavily in it (MCF). Itis difficult to understand whythe Government wants to resortto corporatisation," she said.

She said the future of 2,000workers remains uncertain dueto the Government's move.Theprimary job of the PSU is wel-fare of the people and not tobenefit capitalists, she said.Sonia also criticised theGovernment for stopping thepractise of having a separate rail-way budget. "Can we not expectparliamentary scrutiny for suchtypes of decisions," she said.

She also highlighted thecondition of HindustanAeronautics Ltd, MahanagarTelephone Nigam Ltd andBharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd."Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru hadtermed PSUs as temples ofmodern India. Today, it is sad tosee that these temples are underthreat," she said.

A railway official pointedout that while the foundationstone of the MCF was laid by theCongress led UPA Governmentin February 2007, constructionstarted only in May 2010. "Thefactory was slated to produce1,000 coaches. However, it wasfar from achieving its full poten-tial.

"Between 2011 and 14, itonly did minor work on somecoaches brought fromKapurthala. Only 375 coacheswere 'refurbished' between 2011and 2014 whereas it should havebeen fully manufacturingcoaches. In July 2014, MCF wasdeclared a Production Unit ofIndian Railways and now itsproduction capacity has grownby leaps and bounds," said thesource.

Since 2014, the factory hasin fact doubled productionalmost every year: 140 coachesin 2014-15, 285 in 2015-16, 576in 2016-17, 711 in 2017-18. It isexpected to produce 1,425coaches in 2018-19. The

target for this year is 2,158coaches. Protests have rockedthe MCF, which sources saycould be the first of the railways'seven production units thatcould be corporatised.

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Union Home Minister AmitShah on Tuesday said

Bangladeshi Terror OutfitJamaat-Ul-Mujahideen is usingWest Bengal madrasas torecruit and radicalise the locals.

Shah said this in his replyin Parliament on whether thereare reports that madrasas inWest Bengal are preaching reli-gious extremism and helpingthe terrorist organisations. Hesaid there are some inputs onBangladeshi terror outfitJamaat-ul-Mujahideen usingsome madrasas in the state for"radicalisation and recruitmentactivities".

As per the Ministry's replyto questions put up by BJP MPs— Khagen Murmu and

Sukanta Majumdar of MaldahaUttar and BalurghatParliamentary constituenciesrespectively — severalmadrasas in Burdwan andMurshidabad are being usedfor terror-related activities. TheMHA further added that rele-vant inputs in this regard areshared with the state govern-ment.

Government has notifiedJ a m a a t - u l - M u j a h i d e e nBangladesh or Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen India or Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Hindustan andall its manifestations as aTerrorist Organization on23.05.2019 in terms of theUnlawful Activities(Prevention) Act, 1967," theMinistry said.

The Special Task Force of

the West Bengal Police arrest-ed a member of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen on Tuesday fromBurdwan district where MHAflagged the radicalisation inmadrasas by the banned outfit.According to reports, theaccused has been arrested inconnection with January 2018Bodh Gaya blast.

The Jamaat-ul-Mujahideenis a terrorist organisation thathas links with Pakistani terrorgroup Lashkar-e-Tayyaba(LeT). The organisation wasallegedly involved in 2016attack in a cafe in Bangladesh'scapital city Dhaka. Earlier therewere reports that the outfit wasplanning to set up within 10km along Bangladesh border inseveral districts of West Bengal,Assam and Tripura.

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Issues like framing laws tocheck the menace of fake

news leading to communalstrife in some parts of thecountry, regulation of onlinegames as they are harminggullible children and photo-graph of Mahatma Gandhi dis-played on whiskey bottle fig-ured in the Rajya Sabha onTuesday.

Raising the issue of fakenews on social media like twit-ter, Digvijaya Singh(Congress)demanded a law to regulate thesocial media as fake news istriggering communal riots andsocietal divide is being created.He also said fake news is moredangerous than terrorismadding "Many people (tweetingfake news) are followed by bigpeople," without naming any-one.

The Congress leadersought a comprehensive law sothat indecent language andspread of communal poison ischecked on social media.Terming the issue as important,Chairman M Venkaiah Naidusaid there is a need to evolve aconsensus else there will beallegations of trampling free-dom of expression.

Drawing the attention ofthe house to danger posed by

online gaming, VinaySahasrabuddhe(BJP) said chil-dren between the age group offive to eight years were fallingprey to it. He said some coun-tries like China and Australiahave already taken steps tocheck the misuse of onlinegaming.

Sanjay Singh(AAP)broughtup the matter of MahatmaGandhi's photograph onwhiskey bottles reportedlymanufactured in Israel andtermed it as objectionable. Hesaid Gandhiji throughout hislife propagated non-violenceand preached against ill-affectsof alcohol consumption. Heurged the external affairs min-istry to take note of the matterand demanded immediate stopof sale of such bottles in India.Several Opposition membersincluding leader of oppositionGhulam Nabi Azad associated

themselves with Singh. Naiduasked External Affairs MinisterS Jaishankar, who was presentin the House, to take note.

N Gokulakrishnan(AIADMK) demanded extend-ing of the 25 per cent reserva-tion to natives and locals of astate in all the 48 central uni-versities. He said 25 per centreservation for locals in allcourses in PondicherryUniversity has not been imple-mented despite the academicexecutive council acceptingsuch a move in 2013-14. RamNath Thakur (JD-U) wantedrules to check mushroomingcoaching centres.

T K Rangarajan (CPM)criticised the move to corpo-ratise production units ofIndian Railways.

Saroj Pandey (BJP) want-ed yoga to be included as partof compulsory education.

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The Government will sooncome up with a National

Medical Commission (NMC)Bill to usher in comprehensivereforms in the medical educa-tion sector, Union HealthMinister Harsh Vardhan onTuesday informed the LokSabha.

He was replying to a debateon Indian Medical Council(Amendment) Bill, 2019, whichwas later passed by the Houseby voice vote. This bill providesfor supersession of MedicalCouncil of India for a period oftwo years with effect fromSeptember 26, 2018. It willreplace an Ordinance promul-gated on February 21.

The Minister said theGovernment is working on theNMC bill and "will soon takeit to Union Cabinet and then inParliament". He said the NMCbill, which was introduced inDecember, 2017, lapsed withthe dissolution of the 16th LokSabha. On the Medical Council(Amendment) Bill, theMinister said that the Board ofGovernors (BoG) which hadreplaced the MCI has workedwell and taken a series of stepsto improve medical educationin the country.

The BoG has grantedaccreditation to more numberof medical colleges, increasednumber of seats and reducedprocedural hurdles, he said,adding it is manned by doctorsof great repute. "This is just abeginning of our work and youwill see radical reforms in themedical education of the coun-try," he said.

The Indian MedicalCouncil or the Medical Councilof India (MCI) was set upunder the Medical CouncilAct 1956, for setting standardsfor medical professionals, newmedical colleges and revision ofcurriculum, among others.

Introducing the Bill,Vardhan said in the last twodecades, a perception was builtthat MCI has been unsuccesfulin discharging its duties andthat corrupt practices areprevalent in the regulatory

body."Although the National

Medical Commission Bill couldbe introduced in the nearfuture but to have legal conti-nuity every Ordinance has tobe converted into a law," hestressed.

Participating in the debateon the bill, Congress leaderAdhir Ranjan Chowdhuryopposed the Ordinance routetaken by the Government tosupersede the Indian MedicalCouncil saying it was unhealthyfor democracy. Chowdhurysaid the Ordinance was pro-mulgated twice by the govern-ment despite elections beinground the corner. "MCI hadbecome a scam tainted author-ity," he said. The Bill also pro-poses to increase the number ofmembers in the board ofGovernors to 12 from the exist-ing 7.

Sanjay Jaiswal (BJP) saidthe government should look forgood and whole-time profes-sors for medical colleges.Opposing the Bill, GauthamSigamani Pon (DMK) said theintention of this governmentwas to undermine the powersof the State. Kakoli GhoshDastidar (AITMC) suggestedthe Government do away withthe entrance test for medical.

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Left parties staged a walkoutin the Rajya Sabha on

Tuesday protesting the intro-duction of the CentralEducational Institutions (reser-vation in teachers' cadre) Bill,saying they were not givenenough time for submittingamendments. The Bill, passed inthe Lok Sabha, on Monday,sought to replace an Ordinanceto provide reservation to sched-uled castes (SC), scheduledtribes (ST) and economicallyweaker section for teachers’posts in Central educationalinstitutions.

Both the CPI and CPI(M)members protested, saying theywere not given enough time tomove amendments to the bill, towhich the Chair said Congress

member T Subbarami Reddy hasalready submitted an amend-ment and they too could havedone so. CPI(M) memberElamaram Kareer raised a pointof order under the Rule 91 andsaid the government should givea copy of the Bill a day before toa member who is willing to movean amendment. "Here the billcomes in the afternoon, we aregetting the supplementary list ofbusiness in the afternoon. I havenot received the bill prior, so thatto give the amendment. So it isnot in order to present the bill inthe House," he said.

To this, Deputy ChairmanHarivansh Singh said, "Undersuch cases, this clause is relaxed.So he (the HRD Minister) canmove (the bill). The Chair haspower to do it and the Chair hastaken it." The Left party mem-

bers were standing in aisle of theHouse asking the Chair underwhat circumstances the rules arerelaxed. They said the Chairshould uphold the rules.

The Deputy Chairman said:"The copies of the bill weregiven to members in the morn-ing. If members wished, theycould have given amendmentsin the afternoon. ....SubbaramiReddy (Cong) has given anamendment."

Leader of the HouseThawarchand Gehlot said anamendment bill is required to begiven a day before and the cur-rent one is not and thereforethere is no point of order.Information and BroadcastingMinister Prakash Javadekar said,"Subbarami Reddy has alreadygiven an amendment. Theyshould take tuition from him."

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Amid reports of shortage ofwater in several States, the

Modi Government has startedvarious conservation measuresto plug the leakages at every levelby asking all the Ministries anddepartments to install aerators— a device that can control theflow of water from the watertaps, thereby avoiding wastage—in the taps used in theGovernment buildings beingone of them.

An order has been issued bythe Union Jal Shakti Ministryrecently in this regard statingthat "all the Ministries/depart-ments are requested to issuedirections to the concernedauthorities to fit aerators in tapsused in buildings ofMinistries/departments ofGovernment of India therebyconserving a large amount ofwater."

"It is brought to the noticeof this Ministry that a simpledevice called aerator could con-trol the flow of water from thetaps and thereby help in con-servation of water. Aerators aresmall attachments that are fittedat the end of the water taps orcan be inserted inside the spout.

"The aerators through theirfine pores break the incomingstream of water into the sub-streams. Therefore, while theout-flowing water is sufficientfor utilisation towards cleanli-ness, wastage is prevented byreducing excess flow. This devicesubstantially saves water with nosacrifice in water pressure andrinse ability of water," it added.

It also said there is anincreasing gap between wateravailability and demand, whichhighlights the need for conser-vation of water.

"With water levels fallingdrastically and several statesacross India facing a severewater shortage, every small steptaken in the direction of con-servation of water would go along way in tackling scarcity ofwater in the country," it added.

Prime Minister NarendraModi too in his Mann Ki Baatradio address last week stressed

on water conservation such ascreatin awareness on watershortage, sharing knowledge oftraditional methods of waterstorage and information aboutindividuals and NGOs workingon water conservation.

About half of India is facingdrinking water crisis withChennai and Bengaluru bearingthe brunt as monsoon gotdelayed and arrived without abrimming bucket. A Niti Aayogreport released last year predictsDay Zero for 21 Indian cities bynext year. Day Zero refers to theday when a place is likely to haveno drinking water of its own.

According to the CompositeWater Management Index(CWMI) prepared by the think-tank, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhiand Hyderabad are among themost susceptible. The situationis likely to worsen given thatIndia is set to overtake China asthe world's most populous coun-try in less than a decade — andby 2050 it will have added 416million urban residents, as perthe UN.

Demand for water will reachtwice the available supply by2030, the UN report said -- plac-ing hundreds of millions oflives in danger

����� ���� ���&��!�������4 &���������New Delhi: The sanction toprosecute former FinanceMinister P Chidambaram andformer Niti Aayog CEOSindhushree Khullar for theiralleged involvement in cor-ruption is awaited from theCentre for more than fourmonths, a latest data by theCVC said.

The requests seeking sanc-tion to prosecuteChidambaram was sent to theMinistry of Home Affairs onJanuary 22 this year, accordingto data updated till May 2019.

The probity watchdog saidthe sanction to prosecute a fewbureaucrats is also pendingwith the Personnel Ministry,that acts as the nodal depart-ment for anti-corruption mat-ters, for over four months.

The permission is awaitedto prosecute Khullar and for-mer secretary of the Ministryof Micro, Small and MediumEnterprises, Anup K Pujari, fortheir alleged involvement in thecorruption case, the CentralVigilance Commission (CVC)said.

Besides them, the anti-corruption watchdog is waitingfor the government's approvalto prosecute Prabodh Saxena,

who is Principal Secretary inthe Himachal PradeshGovernment, Rabindra Prasad,former undersecretary in theDepartment of EconomicAffairs and Ajith Kumar Dung,former section officer and saidto be working with the UnionHealth Ministry now as under-secretary in the INX Mediacorruption case, they said.

The case is related to thealleged irregularities in grant-ing clearance by the ForeignInvestment Promotion Board(FIPB) to INX Media forreceiving overseas funds to thetune of �305 crore.

Khullar served as addi-

tional secretary in theDepartment of EconomicAffairs during 2004 and 2008.She was in 2015 appointed asthe Niti Aayog CEO.

Pujari was the joint secre-tary during 2006 and 2010;Saxena served as the director ofthe department between 2008and 2010, and Prasad alsoworked during the periodunder investigation.

The CVC, which is work-ing without its regular chief,said it is awaiting sanction toprosecute over 100Government officials, mostlyfrom banks, in 57 cases ofalleged corruption for more

than four months.As per norms, sanction

for prosecution has to be decid-ed within four-month time.

An FIR was filed by theCentral Bureau of Investigation(CBI) on May 15, 2017, alleg-ing irregularities in the FIPBclearance to INX Media forreceiving overseas funds in2007 when Chidambaram wasthe finance minister in theUPA government.

Senior Congress partyleader Chidambaram is a RajyaSabha member fromMaharashtra.

INX Media was onceowned by Peter and Indrani

Mukherjea, prime suspects inthis money laundering andcorruption case.

Chidambaram's son Kartiis also under probe by the CBIand the EnforcementDirectorate (ED) regardingvarious clearances given to thecompany.

According to the investi-gating agencies, INX Mediashowed a transaction of Rs 10lakh named against AdvantageStrategic Consulting Pvt Ltd, afirm which is allegedly indi-rectly owned by Karti, as man-agement consultancy chargestowards an FIPB notificationand clarification.

It has been alleged thatKarti Chidambaram tookmoney from INX Media andused his influence and powerto manipulate a tax probeagainst the company regardinga case of violation of the FIPBconditions to get investmentsfrom Mauritius.

The CBI had registered anFIR against Karti, his compa-ny Chess ManagementServices, Peter Mukerjea andIndrani Mukerjea, INX Media,Advantage Strategic ConsultingServices and its DirectorPadma Vishwanathan.

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Yahan sab China ki taraf ja rahehain. Aapko kuch karna padega(Here everyone is being drawnto China. You have to do some-thing).” This Nepalese politician

sounded the warning early last year afterthe new Nepal Communist Party, whichmerged with the Communist Party ofNepal (Maoist Centre), won landslideelectoral victories with a near two-thirdsmajority in the lower House, a majority inthe upper House, Governments in six of theseven provinces and victories in 80 per centof the local body elections. That theChinese played an unprecedented role inthis political transformation of Nepal is nosecret. All previous landmark changes wereIndia-driven.

In 1770, the founder of modern Nepal,King Prithvi Narayan Shah’s observationthat Nepal is a root vegetable between twoboulders has remained a variable constant.Variable because the country has swayedwith the wind and bent towards whichev-er power was stronger in periods of histo-ry — British India/India or China. Nepalwas a tributary to China and the latterclaimed suzerainty. Vis-a-vis India, itfound its sovereign space by playing theextra-regional China card.

China’s rise in Nepal is unstoppable atleast till 2021 when the next elections aredue. Kathmandu’s policy of equidistancebetween its two giant neighbours hasacquired a Beijing tilt, courtesy NewDelhi’s serial blunders since 2015, whichgave rise to marked anti-India sentiment— though New Delhi lived in denial — andsovereignty-based nationalism. China’sproclaimed policy of non-interference inthe internal affairs of any country wasditched once the Maoists came to powerin 2008. Soon, like India, it was implicat-ed in regime change. Kathmandu did nothave to play the Beijing card. Beijing dealtit itself. In the recent history, Nepal hasviewed India and not China as the threat.Which was why the bulk of Nepalese Armydeployment faced south, in Terai, Indiabeing the subject of vigil. With deeppockets, China’s inevitable rise began in2005 when King Gyanendra facilitatedBeijing’s entry into the South AsianAssociation for Regional Cooperation(Saarc) as an observer. At that time, Chinawas vociferously critical of the Maoists, whowere fighting the civil war, calling them“miscreants”, “anti-state rebels” and “hijack-ers of Mao’s fair name.” With remarkablealacrity, China changed tack once Maoiststook power, saying “we have rediscoveredideological similarities with our com-rades.” Beijing dropped the King whom ithad supported in the war and stated thatit will protect Nepal’s sovereignty and ter-ritorial integrity. Gyanendra committedhara-kiri with his palace coup, creating con-ditions for dismantling of monarchy anda new Constitution.

In Nepal, China has beenlooking beyond Tibet, its “OneChina” policy and the virtualcontrol of the 17 northernborder districts. Kathmanduwill never displease Beijingover managing the 30,000Tibetan refugees in Nepal. TheDalai Lama’s office was orderedclosed in 2005 and refugeecrossings into Tibet throughNepal reduced from 3,000 to300 annually. China has invest-ed heavily in Nepal’s domesticpolitics, economics, militaryand people-to-people relationsbesides the art of regimechange. Beijing facilitated theformation of the Left allianceand its merger and has reachedout to all political parties andcivil society groups. In 2004, ithad trained 40 bureaucrats inChina. That number hasjumped to 800 civil servants in2019. Since 2013, it is thelargest Foreign Direct invest-ment (FDI) investor andprovider of OfficialDevelopment Assistance(ODA), overtaking India. In2017, China committed $8.3billion at the KathmanduInvestment Conclave of which$1.3 billion has been utilised.

President Xi Jinping, who isyet to visit Nepal, wants to cre-ate a cross-border SpecialEconomic Zone and wishes

India to join hands in the devel-opment of Nepal, echoing thesentiments of Nepali leaders thatKathmandu should act as abridge between China andIndia. China has bagged mostinfrastructure projects — likeinternational airports inPokhara and Lumbini andrefurbishing the Kathmanduairport — which were initiallyawarded to India and for thefirst time, hydro-power projects.Nepal has joined the Belt andRoad Initiative (BRI), which likethe China-Pakistan EconomicCorridor (CPEC), envisagesambitious rail and road corri-dors from Tibet into Nepal,touching the Indian border,ultimately connecting theIndian Ocean. At present, thereis the North-South road, whichis in a state of disrepair since the2015 earthquake. The project isfacing tests of economic viabil-ity, funding and topographicalchallenges. It is unlikely tomaterialise anytime soon.

High-level political visits toChina are on the rise. PresidentBidhya Devi Bhandari, PrimeMinister KP Oli and PrimeM i n i s t e r - i n - w a i t i n g ,Prachanda, have been invited atleast twice, besides a slew ofother leaders. Many agree-ments have been signed,including Trade and Transit,

dry ports, supply of petroleumproducts and access to sevenChinese ports. A look at themap will show the cost profli-gacy of these alternatives in theevent of another economicblockade. China wants aComprehensive StrategicProgramme with the NepalArmy, which has received $32.3million in grant, 10 times high-er than earlier. It has alsoincreased its seats in China’sWar College and is the recipi-ent of specialised equipment forUN peace-keeping.

China’s soft power is man-ifest through Confucian insti-tutions. At least 45 Chinesestudy centres and Nepalischools offer free Mandarincourses. Buddhism is beingpromoted through a Chinese-dominated Buddhist circuitfocussed on Lumbini, empha-sising Buddha was born inNepal. People-to-people con-tacts have risen sharply withChinese tourists swarmingNepal. China has penetratedthe Terai, which was onceIndia’s red line.

A Chinese think-tank in2018 suggested that Indiashould be punished for givingthe Dalai Lama a long rope,including visiting Tawang in2015. One of the likely placesof retribution is Nepal, where

there is no Wuhan spirit.Beijing has taken advantage ofthe anti-India sentiment andthe Nepali media, while beingcritical of India, favours China.A historical mistake of prevent-ing Chinese occupation ofTibet has come to haunt Indiaas China eyes Indian marketsacross the strategic IndoGangetic Plains via the plannedChina Nepal EconomicCorridor (CNEC). A day maycome when China will object tothe use of Nepali troops in theIndian Army — along with ex-servicemen, the biggest pro-India constituency — con-fronting the People’s LiberationArmy (PLA). Even as Beijinghas made considerable politi-cal and economic gains, Chinacannot become an alternativefor dependence on India, giventhat geography, history, culture,religion and the open border,across which six to seven mil-lion Nepalis move for liveli-hood, bind India and Nepaltogether. Still, the ominousunfolding in Nepal is mainlythe result of the inept handlingby the Modi 1.0 Government.

(The writer is a retiredMajor General of the IndianArmy and founder member ofthe Defence Planning Staff, cur-rently the revamped IntegratedDefence Staff)

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Both, the Telangana RashtraSamithi (TRS) and the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) should set anexample by taking strict action against them besidesallowing the law to take its owncourse. No one is above the law.Politicians need to be heldaccountable for their acts.

It was shocking that BJPnational general secretaryKailash Vijayvargiya tried todefend his son’s actions by claim-ing that both his son, AkashVijayvargiya and the assaultedmunicipal officer DhirendraSingh Bais were “kachche khila-di” (novice players).

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Preparing for Day Zero” (July 1).Acute shortage of water being wit-nessed in Bengaluru and Chennaias also other parts of the country

is reflective of the fact that ourcities are unable to cope with thedemands of a large population.Years of deficient rainfall, over-extraction of ground waterthrough borewells and upsurge inconstruction activities, whichconsume a lot of water, have led

to this precarious situation. It is because of poor urban

planning that one finds a largenumber of commercial and resi-dential buildings cramped up intoo little space. The demand forwater increases in direct propor-tion to the number of people, who

inhabit these spaces. Today, wehave come to a point where acutewater crisis is staring at us. On theone hand, there are several placeswhich receive deficient rainfall.On the other, several regionsrecord extremely high levels ofrainfall like Mumbai, which, bar-ring the 2005 deluge, received thehighest rainfall in the last twodays since 1974. Rainwater har-vesting during the monsoon sea-son is the best option to confrontthe water crisis.

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Donald, Kim bhai bhai” (July 2).US President Donald Trump tookthe world by surprise by announc-ing a sudden meet with NorthKorean leader Kim Jong-un. Thedecision taken by the two coun-tries to resume talks is a positivedevelopment. Both sides musttake substantial steps to bringpeace to the Korean peninsula.

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Most people in Jammu & Kashmir are rejoic-ing at the extension of President’s Rule foranother six months. It is not normal that

people want Central rule to continue. In fact, theyeagerly await the return of a popular Governmentfor obvious reasons. However, Jammu & Kashmiris an exception and special in this regard becauseunder the garb of Article 370, the State has beensubjected to the worst kind of governance. The bor-der State has been a victim of not only cross-bor-der terrorism, militancy and backwardness but alsopoor governance. The last is among the many prob-lems that plague Kashmir, which also suffers frompolitical and religious radicalisation.

A total disconnect exists between the threeregions of the State. For the lust of power, politi-cal parties have tried to divide the State in orderto garner votes rather than uniting them. Emphasishas been on creating more administrative unitsrather than ensuring a responsive administration.Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs) announcedfrom time to time, to address the turmoil inKashmir, have at best been cosmetic in nature —more for appeasement and less for effect. These fur-ther widened the gulf between the three regions.Rather than addressing public-related issues, theadministration was busy promoting dynastic rulein the State. The net result was severe disappoint-ment among the people and grave dejection dueto an unresponsive administration and the “could-n’t care less” attitude of the political bosses.“Exclusivity” rather than “inclusivity” was the normwith successive elected Governments since they hadso manipulated the power structure in the State thatthe Valley became the centre of power while Jammuand Ladakh became subservient to Kashmiri dom-inance. Leaders of these two regions virtuallyresigned to their fate and accepted Kashmiri patron-age as the norm. A majority of the population inKashmir was disenchanted with such leadershipbecause huge financial packages given by the Centrefor the development of the State were plunderedas leaders were more interested in filling their pock-ets as well as those of their cronies and favourites.

People started losing faith in electedGovernments. Moreover, the “anti-India” narrativecreated fissures among Kashmiris. Nationalist voic-es bravely faced the challenge posed by separatistand extremist forces. Kashmir-centric political par-ties depend to a large extent on the latent supportof the Hurriyat and Jamat-e-Islami Kashmir.Hence, rather than concentrating on fair, clean andresponsive administration, they were busy flirtingwith the separatists and extremists, putting theagenda of governance on the back burner.

The Modi Government at the Centre was keen-ly observing the happenings in the State. Packagesworth thousands of crores were announced by thePrime Minister for developmental purpose. Still,the three regions of the State were not making muchheadway due to inept bureaucratic handling andinadequate political control. Corruption, bureau-cratic inertia and absence of proper governancewere not only fuelling turmoil in the Valley but theother two regions were getting alienated, too. It wasthis hopelessness that led a majority of the peopleto welcome their first-ever career politician asGovernor. The Modi Government’s decision tobreak the well-established practice of appointingan Army-General or a bureaucrat as Governor ofthe State by a career politician evoked mixed

responses. Power brokers, who felt threatened, madea lot of hue and cry and termed the move as “polit-ical manipulation” as elections were approaching.They misinterpreted the intent of the ModiGovernment, which had decided to showcase tothe people of the State what good governance meantand let them have a first-hand experience of aresponsive administration. Peace and developmentwere the two cornerstones of the UnionGovernment’s policy for Jammu & Kashmir.Governor Satya Pal Malik was tasked to win heartsand minds of the people through good governanceunder the watchful eyes of the Prime Minister andthe Home Minister. The mandate to the Governorwas unambiguous with instructions to deliver.

Along with his team of advisors, Malik beganwork from day one. He introduced a number ofadministrative reforms, which were welcomed bythe people. It was evident from his initial actionsthat the thrust of the Government would be notonly on “delivery” but also rooting out rampant cor-ruption. The State Administrative Council (SAC),under the chairmanship of the Governor, beganwith rejuvenating the projects sanctioned under thePrime Minister’s development package of �80,000crore and took landmark development initiativesand decisions to put various projects on track byremoving administrative bottle necks.

The next major initiative was the creation ofthe Jammu & Kashmir Infrastructure DevelopmentCorporation (JKIDC), under which theGovernment raised a capital of �8,000 crore to givea major thrust to infrastructure and languishingprojects. Approved projects are to be completed in18 months, with time-bound monitoring. Talkshave also begun on fresh loans from the AsianDevelopment Bank for new developmental projects.The Shahpurkandi dam project and the Ujh Multi-purpose project, which were lying in limbo for 40years, have been revived. The twin projects will notonly make the State self-sufficient in electricity butwill prove to be a game-changer as far as the Kandi(dry and arid) belt of the Jammu region is con-

cerned. They will convert the region into a greenbelt with irrigation facilities. A number of hydro-electric projects in Jammu region have also beensanctioned.

Infrastructural development includes 100 percent household electrification; construction of near-ly 6,000 new houses under PMAY; 20,000 newhouses being sanctioned, one million toilets con-structed, 40 new degree colleges being opened thisyear — a key youth demand being addressed —sports projects under PMDP put on fast-track andfunds provided for the development of sports infra-structure in educational institutions.

As far as administrative reforms, empowermentof the people and strengthening of democratic insti-tutions (jamhooriyat) is concerned, Jammu &Kashmir is witnessing a new era under President’sRule. Grassroot-level democracy has been estab-lished for the first time as panchayat and local bod-ies’ elections are held successfully. These institutionswere financially empowered to address the issuesfaced by the common man. The Government’sassurance to hold elections to Block DevelopmentCouncils (BDC), too, is welcome. In order to meetthe aspirations of the people of Ladakh, who alwaysfelt neglected, the SAC has empowered the two HillCouncils, both administratively and financially. Thehallmark being non-lapsable annual budget, theunspent portion of which could be carried forwardto the next financial year.

Many structural and administrative reformshave also been launched to make the administra-tion responsive and accountable. Anti-corruptionmeasures include the first-ever Anti-CorruptionBureau (ACB), established to effectively tackle andeliminate corruption from public institutions. TheJammu & Kashmir Vigilance Commission Act,2011, was amended to make it more vibrant andeffective and the Prevention of Corruption Act, too,was amended to give it more teeth. The war on cor-ruption unleashed through the action taken by ACBagainst the top-level management of the J&K Bank,which had become a den of corruption, favouritism

and nepotism, has sent a wave of unprecedentedjoy among the public. The administration has suc-cessfully conveyed the message that the corrupt, however mighty he/she be, will not bespared.

The administration has also addressed thevital issue of unemployment. Many reforms havebeen introduced to make recruitments transpar-ent and speedy, cutting down red tape as well asinterviews. Around 42,211 posts have been gen-erated for employment. Employees’ welfare hasbeen taken care of by hiking remuneration ofanganwadi workers, substantial hike has beenannounced in honorarium of SPOs — a moralebooster for 32,000 of them. The ex-gratia for nextof kin of slain police personnel has been substan-tially hiked and the Government will bear theireducation costs up to class XII. Addressing theaspirations of the youth in the State still remainsa big challenge for the government.

In addition to reach the last man in line,many measures for social inclusion as well asrelief, rehabilitation and welfare measures wereinstituted by the Government. The largest everpublic outreach programme was launchedthrough the innovative idea of ‘Back to Village’.This ambitious programme has generated hopeamong the villagers that with the administrationcoming to their door step, their developmentneeds will be addressed. Hope the unprecedent-ed success of this programme will encourage theGovernment to launch a similar programme fortowns and urban areas. There is a sense of hopeand relief among the masses. The process of win-ning hearts and minds through good governancehas begun in the right earnest. People are hope-ful that peace will be achieved through devel-opment, provided the Government does notrelent in its ‘zero tolerance policy’ against theterrorists and those who form part of the ter-ror support network and terror funding.

(The writer is a Jammu-based political commen-tator, columnist, security and strategic analyst)

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An intense power struggle is onbetween the old guard and theyoung Turks in the Congress

even as the party is struggling with anunprecedented leadership crisis after ahumiliating defeat in the recent LokSabha polls. Congress president RahulGandhi has plunged the party into fur-ther crisis by resigning and sticking tohis decision so far.

The younger lot feels that RahulGandhi’s hands need consolidation forhim to purge several from the old guardto restructure the party. However,those in the old guard argue that theCongress scion had led the party’s cam-paign from the front and most of thedecisions were his. They are unwillingto own up responsibility for the deba-

cle despite media statements fromRahul like: “I cannot ask others toresign, too. It is up to them if they wantto take responsibility.” Interestingly, afterthe electoral drubbing, while RahulGandhi blamed the senior leaders fornot supporting his campaign, AICCgeneral secretary Priyanka GandhiVadra blamed the workers for the poorshow. So the blame-game goes on.

The young Turks have seized theopportunity to demand the removal ofan incompetent old guard. To forcetheir hands, over 140 leaders haveresigned en masse with more resigna-tions in the pipeline. The resignationswere ostensibly to give a free hand toRahul Gandhi to restructure the party.The spree began last week with youngleaders, including vice chairman ofAICC foreign affairs department PratapSingh Bajwa, senior Congress leaderand advocate Vivek Tankha, AICC sec-retary and Rajasthan co-inchargeTarun Kumar and Congress LegislatureParty leader in the Uttar PradeshLegislative Council Deepak Singh.Their main demand is that the presentCongress Working Committee (CWC)be disbanded and that the Pradesh

Congress Committee (PCC) presi-dents of the 17 States, where the partyfailed to win a single Lok Sabha seat,should step down. They also hope thatmass resignations will convince RahulGandhi to take back his resignation. Allthese at a time when the party chiefspokesman Randeep Surjewala hasbeen claiming, “Rahul Gandhi was, isand will remain the Congress presi-dent.”

In a counter move, the old guard,which is not willing to give up its holdon the party, has floated the names ofthree senior party loyalists as the new

party president if Rahul Gandhi isdetermined to quit. Leaders includeUnion minister Sushil Kumar Shinde,former Congress party leader in LokSabha Mallikarjun Kharge andRajasthan Chief Minister AshokGehlot. All three leaders will vacatetheir seat whenever the family wantsto take back the chair. Shinde seems tohave an edge over the others. It is clearthat the family will not give up its holdon the party easily with three Gandhisat the top level.

The Congress is certainly goingthrough a rough patch but the leader-

ship problem is something that shouldbe resolved soon. The morale of theworkers is low as the party has sufferedtwo successive electoral defeats.Technically, Rahul Gandhi is in-chargeas the CWC has rejected his resigna-tion. He has thoughtlessly plunged theparty into a chaos without providingfor an alternative leadership. Evenmany senior leaders have no cluewhether Rahul will remain or go.

The party is directionless, cluelessand leaderless. As a result, factionalfights have broken out in several Statesincluding Karnataka, Punjab,Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh andHaryana. At the national headquarters,the tussle between the old guard andthe young Turks has broken out. InTelangana and Maharashtra, the grandold party is facing erosion. TheCongress-ruled Karnataka, Rajasthanand Madhya Pradesh StateGovernments look precarious.

So, the first priority for the partymust be to decide on the leadershipissue. It’s been almost a month sinceRahul Gandhi offered to quit. If heinsists on the same, the party shouldwaste no time and look for someone

to replace him. There were even talksof a collegium to run the party whileRahul goes on a countrywide pad yatra.There is urgency because Assemblyelections are due in some States likeHaryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand.

Second, the organisation needs athorough overhaul at all levels and theCWC has already authorised RahulGandhi to address this. People withmass base should be made in-chargeof election-bound States.

Third, the communication strate-gy of the party needs to be improved.Fourth, the party should also improveits social engineering and alliancestrategy. Where the Congress is in aposition to give a direct fight to the BJP,local leadership should be encouraged.Above all, the party should introspectand take corrective steps soon.

In a democracy, there is need foran effective Opposition and theCongress, being the main nationalparty, should lead the Opposition inParliament and outside. Restoration ofthe party’s health is very important forthe grand old party’s survival.

(The writer is a senior political com-mentator and syndicated columnist)

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Equity benchmarks Sensexand Nifty on Tuesday

notched gains for a second ses-sion in a row, helped by oil andgas, IT and financial counters,as investors remained opti-mistic about reforms push inthe Union Budget due onFriday.

Both indices traded in thered for a better part of the ses-sion due to high volatility asparticipants kept weighing ahost of domestic and global fac-tors like weak manufacturingdata, fall in GST collections,slow progress of monsoon andconcerns over global econom-ic growth.

The 30-share Sensex settled129.98 points, or 0.33 per cent,higher at 39,816.48. The indexhit an intra-day high of39,838.49 and a low of39,499.19.

The broader NSE Niftytoo rose 44.70 points, or 0.38per cent, to finish at 11,910.30.During the day, the indextouched a high of 11,917.45and a low of 11,814.70.

Top gainers in the Sensexpack included ONGC, HDFC,Bharti Airtel, Infosys, Maruti,HCL Tech, Mahindra andMahindra, HUL, TechM andSBI — rising up to 2.89 percent.

Yes Bank, on the otherhand, was the biggest loser onthe index, falling 7.60 per cent,

after reports thata borrowerdefaulted onscheduled inter-est payments on a�1,200-crore loanto the privatelender.

Other losersincluded TataMotors, SunP h a r m a ,IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Auto,Axis Bank, Kotak Bank andHero MotoCorp — sheddingup to 2.47 per cent.

Sectorally, BSE oil and gas,energy, IT and utilities rose asmuch as 1.11 per cent. On theother hand, BSE realty, health-care, bankex and industrialsindices fell up to 1.82 per cent.

Broader BSE midcap indexgained 0.38 per cent, and BSEsmallcap index ended flat.

“Stocks globally eked outmeagre gains on Tuesday amidworries the global economywas faltering after data showedmanufacturing activity slowedlast month, weakening appetitefor risk. Investors were scepti-cal of further gains for equitiesafter discouraging manufactur-ing surveys in the past 24 hoursand a US threat of additionaltariffs on European goods,”according to HDFC Securities.

After a weak start marketregained in expectation ofimprovement in Government’sspending to support econom-ic growth with minimum dilu-

tion of fiscal target in theshort-term.

IT index out-performeddue to fall in rupee whilemomentum was seen in bondas premium valuation on equi-ty influenced risk averse to stayon bonds.

Analysts said that tradewar concern of US-China sub-sided but a fresh triggeremerged due to additional tar-iffs on European Union,impacting global market.

On the currency front, theIndian rupee was almost flat at68.95 against the US dollar.

Foreign investors boughtequities worth �426.53 crore ona net basis on Monday, accord-ing to exchange data.

Brent crude futures, theglobal oil benchmark, slipped0.22 per cent to $64.92 per barrel.

Globally, bourses inShanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyoand Seoul ended on a mixednote, while equity markets inEurope were rangebound intheir respective early sessions.

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With creditors rejectingNBCC’s bid to acquire

Jaypee Infratech, the NCLAT onTuesday directed representa-tives of banks, allottees andother stakeholders to appearbefore it on July 17 to considerhow the bid could be tweakedfor the benefit of home buyers.

The tribunal was informedthat in the voting that tookplace on NBCC’s bid, 34.75 percent of home buyers voted infavour, 1.44 per cent votedagainst, whereas 23.8 per centdid not vote.

However, all the 13 banks,which constitute 40.75 per centof Committee of Creditors(CoC) voted against the bid bythe state-run firm to acquireJaypee Infratech. The votingstarted on May 31 and con-cluded on June 10.

Home buyers have nearly60 per cent voting right in theCoC.

During the hearing on thematter, the three-memberbench headed by JusticeChairman S J Mukhopadhyayasaid it was not keen on consid-ering Adani Group’s bid at thisstage while pulling up the banksfor backdoor negotiations withthe business conglomerate.

Stressing that the appellatetribunal’s priority is to take careof the interest of the home buy-ers, the bench asked the repre-sentatives of various stake-holders involved to appear

before it in the next hearing tofind how NBCC’s plans couldbe altered for the benefit of all,specially the home buyers.

The bench said NBCC is agovernment company and onecan rely on it, adding that itknows “the pain of allottees” andwants to do justice for them.

It asked the banks to nom-inate a high ranking officerwho will negotiate, while ask-ing them to produce a gist ofthe resolution plan submittedby NBCC and objections theyhave with regard to the plan.

In its revised offer, NBCChas proposed infusion of Rs200 crore equity capital, trans-fer of 950 acres of land worthRs 5,000 crore to banks andcompleting construction offlats by July 2023 to settle anoutstanding claim of Rs 23,723crore of financial creditors.

When the bench wasinformed that Adani has comeoffering faster construction forhome buyers, the bench said itwas not keen on considering itat the current stage, while stat-ing that if the company was aninterested party it should“intervene” before the appellatetribunal.

Justice Mukhopadhyayareiterated that in the interest ofhome buyers, the resolution ofJaypee Infratech will not beallowed to fail and if it was notpossible to find a solutionthrough the NBCC bid, thenthe bench will consider Adanior any other bids.

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The Government mayimpose anti-dumping duty

on imports of certain types offilament yarn from China,Korea, Taiwan and Thailand asthe commerce ministry hasstarted investigation intoalleged dumping of the prod-uct following complaints fromdomestic players.

The Directorate Generalof Trade Remedies (DGTR),under the commerce ministry,has initiated the probe as it hasfound “sufficient evidence” ofdumping of nylon multi-fila-ment yarn from these countries.

“The authority hereby ini-tiates an investigation into thealleged dumping, and conse-quent injury to the domesticindustry... To determine theexistence, degree and effect ofalleged dumping,” the DGTRsaid in a notification.

If the DGTR will establishthat dumping is impactingdomestic players, it would rec-ommend imposition of a cer-tain amount of anti-dumpingduty, which if levied, would beadequate to remove the injuryto the domestic industry.

The finance ministry willtake final call on imposition ofthe duty after considering rec-ommendations of the direc-torate.

Two firms, includingCentury Enka Ltd, have filedapplication for imposition ofanti-dumping duty on theimports.

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The bank fraud incidenceinvolving over �1 lakh has

declined to 6,735 in 2018-19 ascompared to 9,866 in the pre-vious fiscal, Parliament wasinformed on Tuesday.

During 2018-19, as manyas 6,735 incidences of fraudoccurred with financial impli-cation �2,836 crore as com-pared to 9,866 such activitiesinvolving over �4,228 crore ayear ago, Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharaman said in awritten reply to the RajyaSabha.

Occurrence of frauds wasenabled by lack of discipline inthe financial system and a laxcredit culture, she said.

“Earlier, credit culture anddiscipline in the financial sys-tem was lax across variousstakeholders. Shell companiesfor layered operations to siphonoff funds, control of assets andcontinued access to fundsdespite default or being a fugi-

tive abroad, non-availabilityof passport details and powersto issue look-out circulars withbanks, and lack of assuredchecking for wilful default andfraud in high-value NPA cases,all led borrowers to believe thatthey could get away withdefault, wilful default or evenfraud,” she added.

The role of bankers too wasalso not as rigorously examinedearlier, and auditors were notindependently regulated, theminister noted.

Through extensivereforms, change in credit cul-ture has been instituted anddiscipline tightened for everystakeholder in the financialsystem, which has enabled adecline in the occurrence offrauds, Sitharaman said.

The minister also said theRBI has issued comprehensiveinstructions in respect of secu-rity and risk mitigation mea-sures related to electronic ordigital transactions, includingsteps for securing card trans-

actions like online alerts for alltransactions, certification ofmerchant terminals, and con-version of all existing magnet-ic strip cards to EMV chip andPIN cards.

Replying to an anotherquestion, the finance ministersaid the ratio of gross non-per-forming assets (GNPA) to grossadvances of banks as on March31 of 2017, 2018 and 2019 (pro-visional data), were 9.3 percent, 11.18 per cent and 9.08per cent, respectively.

Public sector banks havebeen recapitalised by �3,19,497crore during the last five finan-cial years from 2014-15 to2018-19, including recapitali-sation of �1,30,225 duringfinancial year 2018-19, shesaid.

Over the last four financialyears, the minister said, PSBswere recapitalised to the extentof �3.12 lakh crore, with infu-sion of �2.46 lakh crore by thegovernment and mobilisationof over �0.66 lakh crore by

themselves.Replying to a separate

question, Sitharaman said, theRBI has powers under otherlaws as well, which include, thepower under section 12 of theForeign ExchangeManagement Act, 1999 toinspect for compliance with theAct and rules etc made thereunder.

The RBI also maintainsthat the Central Repositoryof Information on LargeCredits (CRILC) on aggre-gate fund-based and non-fund-based exposures of �5crore and above of all banks,she said.

Further, she said, the RBImaintains the Central FraudRegistry and banks report allfrauds involving amount above�1 lakh to the apex bank.

In addition, the RBI’s mas-ter directions on frauds lay outguidelines on categorisation,reporting and review of frauds,along with norms for conse-quent provisioning, she said.

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Days ahead of the UnionBudget, agri-warehousing

companies have sought waiv-er of the 18 per cent GSTimposed on such services toboost the farming community.

“The Centre should relookat the GST on agri- ware-housing services. It is raisingthe cost of farmers. I think thegovernment should waive theGST on this sector,” said ParanDass, Transportation Directorof Japanese warehousing majorKawasaki Rikuso.

The waiver will encouragefarmers to store their produceand prevent distress sale, Dasstold PTI.

KRT has set up a solar

agri-warehouse in the state,which is used by the WestBengal AgricultureDepartment.

Sohan Lal CommodityManagement Group CEOSandeep Sabharwal said theGST waiver is a long-standingdemand of the agri-warehous-ing industry.

“The leases of these ware-houses are treated as com-mercial ones, and has an 18 percent GST implication. On thecontrary, output services aredevoid of any GST and even-tually, the customers’ costincreases,” he said.

This often leads to loss ofbusiness for the organised sec-tor, as consumers prefer unor-ganised players who often donot pay GST, he said.

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India has ratified the multi-lateral convention to imple-

ment OECD’s project on check-ing tax evasion, and the provi-sions enshrined in the frame-work will come into effectfrom fiscal 2020-21 for bilateraltax treaties, the finance min-istry said.

The MultilateralConvention to Implement TaxTreaty Related Measures toPrevent Base Erosion and ProfitShifting (BEPS) was signed bythen Finance Minister ArunJaitley in Paris on June 7, 2017.

The Cabinet last monthapproved ratification of theconvention, which will modi-fy India’s treaties in order tocurb revenue loss throughtreaty abuse and base erosion

and profit shifting strategies byensuring that profits are taxedwhere substantive economicactivities generating the prof-its are carried out and wherevalue is created.

The finance ministry in astatement said on June 25,2019, India has deposited theinstrument of ratification toOECD, Paris, along with itsfinal position in terms of cov-ered tax agreements (CTAs),under the multilateral conven-tion.

As a result of this, theMultilateral Convention toImplement Tax Treaty RelatedMeasures to Prevent BaseErosion and Profit Shifting(MLI) “will enter into force forIndia on October 1, 2019, andits provisions will have effect onIndia’s DTAAs from FY 2020-

21 onwards,” a finance ministrystatement said.

Out of 93 CTAs notified byIndia, 22 countries have alreadyratified the MLI as on date andthe Double Taxation AvoidanceAgreement (DTAA) with thesecountries will be modified byMLI.

For the remaining CTAs,effect of MLI will take place asand when these countries rat-ify the MLI, it added.

“The date of entry intoforce of the MLI for India isOctober 1, 2019. In respect ofthe 22 treaty partners of Indiawho have deposited theInstrument of Ratification onor before June 30, 2019, entryinto effect for India under MLIwith respect to the DTAA shallbe from financial year 2020-21onwards,” the Ministry said.

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The Government has comeout with a fresh prelimi-

nary information documentinviting expression of interest(EoI) from bidders for strate-gic sale of consultancy firmEngineering Projects (India) Ltd.

The Government intendsto disinvest 100 per cent of itsshareholding in EPIL alongwith transfer of managementcontrol through a competitivebidding process by way of saleof equity shares, said thePreliminary InformationMemorandum (PIM).

The last date for submis-sion of EoI by interested bid-ders for EPIL, which is under

the administrative control ofHeavy Industries Ministry, isAugust 13, 2019.

The Cabinet, had inFebruary, allowed private sec-tor entities, along with CentralPublic Sector Enterprises(CPSEs), to participate in thebidding for the strategic disin-vestment of EPIL.

This was in partial modi-fication to the October 2016decision of the Cabinet, whichhad approved strategic disin-vestment of EPIL throughmerger with a similarly placedCPSE.

Following the 2016 Cabinetdecision, the Government hadin October, 2017, invited bidsfor sale of EPIL stake to a sim-ilarly placed CPSE.

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Mumbai: Opposition partieson Tuesday lashed out at theruling Shiv Sena and BJP forthe loss of lives due to wall col-lapse incidents in Mumbai andPune and attributed them to"corruption".

Maharashtra Congess chiefAshok Chavan alleged thatBandra's Kala Nagar, whereShiv Sena chief UddhavThackeray resides, faced water-logging and demanded the saf-fron party, which heads theBMC, apologise to citizens for"submerging" the city.

Taking a dig at Thackeray,Chavan said Mumbai wouldnot have flooded had the ShivSena chief overseen pre-mon-soon drainage cleaning worksinstead of "taking out partyMPs" to temples post LokSabha elections.

NCP leader DhananjayMunde criticised the rulingShiv Sena-BJP over water log-ging in Mumbai and demand-ed structural audits of roads,bridges and buildings inMumbai following the wallcollapse incidents.

"25 lives were lost in wallcollapse incidents in Malad,Kalyan, Pune. Roads gotwashed away in Mumbai. Isn'tcorruption equally responsiblefor this as is rain? TheGovernment might give 'cleanchit' to all responsible in thiscorruption. But will that bringback the lives lost? But is thereany assurance that such inci-dents will not repeat?" Chavantweeted.

He claimed local citizensand those from outsideMumbai are stranded at vari-ous places in the city andalleged they were not gettingany help and information onwhen the railways will resumeoperations.

The former Maharashtrachief minister demanded thegovernment take steps on awar-footing to ensure thosestranded are taken to saferplaces.

Targeting the Shiv Senaand BJP, Munde said the twoparties had previously claimedthat there would be no water-logging in Mumbai.

"But parts of the city arenow submerged," Munde said.

Referring to the latest wallcollapse incidents, the NCPleader pitched for audits of var-ious structures in the city.

"We have been demandingsuch audits in the House. Butit will be possible only if theruling parties find some timefrom elections," Mundequipped.

In a separate statement,Chavan alleged the BMC,under the Shiv Sena's watch,had failed miserably in givingservice to the people.

Attacking the BJP, Chavansaid, "It doesn't have guts toleash the Shiv Sena's corrup-tion. Hence, Mumbaikars arenow living 'Ram Bharose' (atthe mercy of God)," the state-ment quoted Chavan as saying.

Chavan also censuredMumbai Mayor VishwanathMahadeshwar's reportedremark that there was no water-logging in the city on Monday.

"His vision may havebecome weak. His remark is asign that the sensibility hasdied," Chavan said in the state-ment.

Mumbai Congress presi-dent Milind Deora said theMalad wall collapse incidentwas "very saddening".

Latching on to mediareports that 54,000 mangroveswill be destroyed for theMumbai-Ahmedabad bullet

train project, Deora said suchaction is being planned despitethis green cover protecting thefinancial capital from storm,waves and floods.

"Mangroves protectMumbai from storms, winds,waves & floods. Yet, 54,000 will

be razed for the bullet train.Will the train shift Mumbaikarsto Ahmedabad when our citydrowns? I urge@CMOMaharashtra to urgent-ly intervene. Planting treesacross Maharashtra won't saveMumbai," former Union min-ister Deora said on Twitter.

Maharashtra NCP presi-dent Jayant Patil also attackedthe civic body over the loss oflives.

Paying tribute to the vic-tim, Patil tweeted, "Such inci-dents really raise doubtswhether the administrationhad really inspected such dilap-idated structures before mon-soon."

Former Maharashtra ChiefMinister Prithviraj Chavantold reporters at VidhanBhavan premises here that dif-ferent governing agenciesworking in Mumbai shouldstop blaming each other forwater-logging and potholes inMumbai.

"It is the failure of the gov-ernment...People are least both-ered about on whose roads(whether of BMC or MMRDA)there are potholese? Issues ofco-ordination (among agen-cies) should be solved at thechief minister's level," Chavanadded. PTI

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Mumbai: In an embarrass-ment for the Shiv Sena whichcontrols the Mumbai civicbody, waterlogging was wit-nessed outside party chiefUddhav Thackeray's residenceon Tuesday as rain lashedMumbai overnight.

The road outside`Matoshree', Thackeray's bun-galow in Kalanagar colony insuburban Bandra, was underknee-deep water.

The Sena has been rulingin the BrihanmumbaiMunicipal Corporation(BMC), the country's richestcivic body, for over twodecades.

But as rain threw the life in

the megapolis out of gear, crip-pling rail, road and air traffic,the civic body and the Senacame in for flak, especiallybecause the BMC officials hadassured that there would be nowaterlogging this monsoon.

NCP leader Nawab Maliktook a jibe at the Sena after hisown residence in nearby Kurlaarea go flooded.

Sharing images of theinside of his house on LBSRoad with he himself standingin knee-deep water, the NCPleader tweeted, "KarunDakhavla (We did it (what hasbeen promised))," taggingUddhav Thackeray, the office ofChief Minister DevendraFadnavis and the BMC.

"Karun Dakhavla" was theSena's campaign slogan beforea civic election a few years ago.

According to the IndiaMeteorological Department,the city witnessed the highestrainfall — 375.2 mm — in the24- hour period before 8.30 amTuesday since the July 26, 2005,deluge. PTI

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Jammu: The third batch of4,823 Amarnath pilgrims left abase camp here on Tuesday forthe 3,880-metre-high caveshrine in south Kashmir.

As many as 8,403 pilgrimshave paid obeisance at theshrine in the Himalayas tillMonday evening, officials said.

Over 1.5 lakh pilgrimsfrom across the country have sofar registered for the 46-daylong pilgrimage, which takesplace from the 36-kmPahalgam track in Jammu andKashmir's Anantnag districtand 14-km Baltal route inGanderbal district.

The third batch comprising4,823 pilgrims — including3,759 males, 936 females and128 sadhus and sadhvis — leftin a fleet of 223 vehicles fromBhagwati Nagar base camphere at around 3.30 am forPahalgam and Baltal.

For the Pahalgam route,2,584 pilgrims left the basecamp, while 2,239 pilgrims forBaltal left in 114 and 109 busesand cars, which were escortedby the Central Reserve PoliceForce (CRPF), officials said.

The yatra to the holy cavecommenced Monday fromboth Baltal and the Pahalgam

routes in Kashmir valley.As many as 6,884 devotees

left from Baltal and 3,065 fromPahalgam route on Monday,they said, adding that the firstbatch was flagged off fromhere on Sunday.

Multi-tier security arrange-ments have been made for thesmooth and successful conductof the yatra concluding onAugust 15, they said.

As many as 2.85 lakh pil-grims paid obeisance at thecave last year, while the num-ber of pilgrims was 3.52 lakh in2015, 3.20 lakh in 2016 and2.60 lakh in 2017. PTI

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On a day when UnionHome Minister for State

G Kishan Reddy expressedconcern in Parliament overcross-border infiltration anduse of religious-educationalinstitutions as groomingground for militants, theSpecial Task Force of KolkataPolice arrested a Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh(JMB) terrorist with allegedconnection with the BodhGaya and Khagragarh blasts.

The STF off icials onTuesday said that they hadarrested Abdul Rahim a JMBoperative with Gaya blast linksfrom Katwa subdivision inBurdwan district. A resident ofMurshidabad district the ter-ror mole is believed to the partof JMB’s Dhulian Module.

Dhulian is a block offFarakka borderingMurshiadabad and Malda dis-tricts. Rahim’s arrest comesdays after the arrest of threeterrorists from Howrah andSealdah stations.

He was arrested followinga tip-off, officials said addinghe was an accomplice of AbdulWahab and Maulana Yousufwho were currently in jailcustody. The banned Banglaterror outfit is an electricalengineer and had elaborateknowledge of making explo-

sives, sources said adding hewas one of the accused linkedto the January 2018, BodhGaya blasts where at least fivepeople including two monkswere injured.

An active member ofDhulian Module Rahim wasentrusted with recruiting,motivating and even trainingthe youth from a particularcommunity sources said.Reddy had earlier said quotingintelligence reports that somemadarsas in Murshidabad andBurdwan districts were beingused to recruit, groom andindoctrinate terror moles.

Reacting to Tuesday’sdevelopment senior Bengalminister Partho Chatterjee saidthe Mamata BanerjeeGovernment was serious abouthandling trans-border terrorproblems. “Our Government isserious about the problemwhich is why the STF is work-ing and arresting terrorists soefficiently,” he said.

Meanwhile, in an apparentmove to check trans-borderinfiltration the CentralGovernment is known to havereleased �316 crore StateGovernment sources said.

Out of the whole amountRs 84.40 crore had beencleared in 2018-19, sourcessaid adding these funds wouldbe used for border area devel-opment with a view to checkcross-border infiltration.

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Government, the MamataBanerjee Government hasfinally decided to soothe feel-ings of economically weakgeneral castes even as theGovernment on Tuesdaydecided to reserve 10 per centjobs for the economicallypoorer section of the peoplethat came from the generalcaste category.

Speaking to reporters StateParliamentary affairs MinisterPartho Chatterjee said theState Cabinet had decided toreserve 10 percent jobs for theeconomically weaker sections.This will be in addition to thereservation granted to theother categories.

“Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decidedto reserve 10 percent jobs for the economically backward section of the society and this was passed inthe State Cabinet,” Chatterjeesaid adding the reservationthus granted would be in addi-tion to the reservations ear-marked for the other cate-gories.

“This means that thosefrom the SC, ST or otherclasses will not come underthis category,” he said.

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Midnapore (WB): ATrinamool Congress (TMC)worker was found dead atNarayangarh in WestMedinipur district of WestBengal, police said onTuesday.

While the TMC allegedthat its activist was killed byBJP workers, the saffron partyput the blame of the death onTMC infighting.

The body of 42-year-oldGanesh Bhuniya was found ona road beside a field near hisresidence on Monday.

He had ventured out onSunday night after receiving aphone call from an unknownperson.

The body was sent forautopsy and the report isawaited.

District Superintendentof Police Dinesh Kumar saidan investigation into the inci-dent has been launched andthey hope for a breakthroughsoon.

The incident happened24 hours after a BJP workerwas killed in neighbouringJhargram district.

Accusing the BJP forBhuniya's death, district TMCpresident Ajit Maity said theruling party will counter theBJP's violence through demo-cratic means.

"People have understoodthat the CPM 'harmads'(armed goons) have switchedsides to the BJP. People are ris-ing against the BJP after hav-ing voted for them in the LokSabha elections," he said. PTI

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Kota (R'than): A 42-year-oldfarmer, apparently distressedover his poor financial condi-tion and illness of his two chil-dren, was found hanging froma tree on his field in Rajasthan'sBaran district, police said onTuesday.

Hajarilal Gujjar is suspect-ed to have committed suicide onMonday night at Bhoat villagein Mangrol area, an officer said,adding that he had left no sui-cide note.

The incident comes 10 daysafter another farmer had com-mitted suicide in the district. Thethree bighas of land owned byGujjar, a father of four children,had been yielding no good cropfor the past couple of years,Manglore police station inchargeAashish Bhargav, said. PTI

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It provides an opportunity forpursuing a career in Arts.Most of the people who comehere have keen interest in arts.It provides them regularity. Italso opens an option wheretheir ward can pursue acareer in the subject.

�How important is it for studentsto get involve in extra-curricularactivities?

While growing up, I was not apart of any extra-curricular activities.This in turn made me lose interestin studies as well. Children betweenthe ages of five to 18 are energetic.The energy needs to by channalisedif we want them to keep their inter-est in subjects like Mathemeticsand Hindi that appear to bore manychildren and slows them down.Children are looking for avenueswhich will entertain them. If they areinvolved in extra-curricular activi-ties they would be keen to learn sub-ject courses.�What are the things to pursue inVastu Shastra?

Those looking for a career inVastu should also know VedicAstrology. For example, if a person

has North favourable direction oneshould not recommend Vastu that isEast favourable.�You pursued music and then didvastu shastra, why?

Music was part and parcel of mylife since I was three. My mother wasa very good singer. I studied Vastubecause my grandfather was a verygood astrologer. I am good with myintuitions. That is how the two werecombined.�How does Vastu help?

Vastu is important as it helpspeople understand the importance ofdirections whether it is at workplaceor at home. Getting the directionright brings in positivity. Vastu isbound by nature and we should fol-low the rules set.

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The Triumphant Institute ofManagement Education

(T.I.M.E) Pvt Ltd is conductingfree All-India Mock CAT exam(scholarship test) on July 7,2019. This exam is available inthe invigilated mode. This testwill be conducted at numerouslocations across the countryand will be written by a verywide cross-section of students.

Based on the performancein the free online mock CAT,a student can get attractive dis-counts from TIME on their testseries (AIMCATs), and class-room programmes for CAT2019.

Ramnath Kankadandi,Course Director CAT ExamTIME. said: “The mock CATs

called AIMCATs are toolsdevised by us for the seriousCAT aspirants. Every one ofthese tests is specially designed,with question combinationsthat cover all the test areas andvarious question types thathave appeared in the CAT overthe years.

“Each AIMCAT is a com-plete test that gives the studenta true-to-CAT experience in allaspects, including difficultylevel and time-management,and thus provides the studentwith a realistic idea of theirlevel of preparedness.AIMCATs help you to buildconcepts, evaluate progress,identify strengths and weak-nesses and thereby enable youto prepare efficient strategies tocrack the CAT.”

The Ministry of CorporateAffairs (MCA) had intro-

duced e-form INC-22A(Active) for taking into accountthe active companies and theirregistered offices. The form hadmandated filling of the detailsof Company Secretary forcompanies mandated toappoint the same thereat. Indiais perhaps the only countrywhere a form like INC-22A(Active), to be filed by everycompany incorporated on orbefore the December 31, 2017,is introduced capturing suchdetails like the latitude and lon-gitude of the registered office,directors, KMPs and auditorsand others. It is evident that theMCA is hoping to achieve sig-nificantly high level of gover-nance norms.

However, the monitoringof appointment of CompanySecretary is an attempt to fur-ther strengthen the existinggovernance framework in theIndian corporate scenario. Thismandate of Government hasrecently raised various con-tentions regarding the shortfallin the number of CS profes-sionals as against the numberof companies eligible and man-dated under the Act to makeappointments and even furtherof Company Secretariesdemanding high salaries inthe wake of such shortage.

Being the parent organisa-tion of Company Secretaries,the Institute of CompanySecretaries of India intends toclarify that there is no shortageof Company Secretaries whoshall be willing to serve the cor-porates and support in theircompliances.

The institute has a dedi-cated placement cell in place for

the purpose of coordinatingbetween corporates intendingto appoint CompanySecretaries and the profession-als seeking employment. As faras the salary packages are con-cerned, it may be noted thatakin to any other professional,the salaries of CompanySecretaries, too, are driven bymarket factors such as numberof years of experience, size oforganisation, work profile,position and others.Considering the trend from thepast few months, there is noimmediate surge in pay pack-ages of Company Secretaries, ashas been claimed by variousquarters.

Emphasising upon improv-ing the level of corporate gov-ernance in the country, CSRanjeet Pandey, President, ICSIsaid: “ICSI being the parentorganisation of Governanceprofessionals in India believesin having strong credentials incorporate governance.Improving the level of trans-parency and accountabilityshall go a long way in strength-ening the Corporate gover-nance framework of thenation.”

“The India Inc is expectedto whole-heartedly support theMCA in its initiative of elimi-nating inactive companies,” hesaid.

The corporates are sug-gested to pursue employmentand appointment of CompanySecretaries in their entities notmerely as a tick-box initiativebut as an attempt to perfecttheir parts in attaining thegoals of good governancewhich shall go a long way inachieving the vision of newIndia,” he adds.

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The students of Narayana Academy has again excelled inJEE(Advance) examination with securing top four ranks in

the top 10. In top 100 ranks, the students were on 24 positions,thus establishing its position as India’s premier coaching insti-tute.

Dr K Gopal, Vice-chairman of Narayana Group said: “Thegroup has once again repeated its outstanding performance in the2019 exams. Our system of learning motivates the students to strivefor better results. Our weekly tests (common practice tests) makesour students perfect as weak subjects/topics are identified andimmediate solutions are suggested for their improvement.Similarly, part tests, cumulative tests, and grand tests are also con-ducted according to the timelines and students’ performance isevaluated. The suggestions once implemented make students per-fect and help them in the long run.”

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����������������� The 70th Chartered Accountants Day of ICAI was celebrated

on July 1, 2019 all across the country with great enthusiasmand zeal. July 1 is a landmark day in the history of ICAI as onthis day ICAI was set up to regulate the Profession of CharteredAccountancy in India in the year 1949. This CA Day was morespecial as the institute has reached a significant milestone i.e.Platinum Jubilee of its glorious existence.

The 70th Chartered Accountants Day in Delhi was inaugu-rated by M Venkaiah Naidu, Vice-President of India. The eventwas also graced by Injeti Srinivas, IAS, Secretary, Ministry ofCorporate Affairs & Dr In-Ki Joo, President, InternationalFederation of Accountants (IFAC). Present were CA Prafulla PChhajed, President & CA Atul Kumar Gupta, Vice-President,ICAI and over 1200 CA Members and stakeholders.

ICAI has achieved significant milestones in the field ofaccountancy and is poised to play a greater role in changing theglobal landscape and strengthening the foundation of resurgentIndia by taking the profession to the newer zeniths.

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Nepotism has always been a hottopic in Bollywood and bound to

attract controversies. But then there areoutsiders like Esha Gupta whoprove that talent ought not tobe bothered by it. “Initially,it worried me but then Igradually understood thisindustry and started vali-dating my existence. Todayno one can turn aroundand say that I made EshaGupta. I fell, I got up,learnt from my ownmistakes and did itall on my own. Ihave no one to givethe credit,” says theJannat 2 actor. Shehas ever eyeballin the room inher monotonepolka dots pant-suit ensemblewith a stylishtwist in the cap-ital where she isbusy promoting,One Day: JusticeDelivered, anaction thriller.She has noqualms in admit-ting that she start-ed from a scratchin 2012 without agodfather in theindustry.

In her latest out-ing, she plays the role ofa fierce crime branchofficer who investigatesthe disappearance ofhigh profile individuals.Esha says, “Laxmi Rathidoes not believe that peo-ple are black or white.They can be grey as welland so is she. She acceptspeople the way they are.Instead of judging the char-acter, she tries to understandwhy s/he must have takenthat step.”

Talking about the filmfurther, she says that itemphasises the idea of karma,which is centered around thetheory that ek din aayega (aday will come when justiceis finally delivered).

S h efurther apprises us,“Films like these liftyou up and enrichyour journey. Iwould love to doroles like thesebecause there isnothing more satis-fying than acting ina film where you candeliver justice, evenif it is onlyonscreen.” However,every role bringsforth challenges andthis one was no dif-ferent. She says,“Learning a newaccent and main-taining it consistent-ly while staying inthe character wasdifficult.”

Adjusting herbeige colour neck-piece, she excitedlytells us that she is

very natural in this film. “After my firstfilm Jannat 2, this is the only one whereI am not wearing lenses or lashes. I did

not care about how I was looking onthe screen. I took naps in betweenshoots, got up and then shot inmessy hair. This film pins theissue deeply and that is the rea-son why I feel about it strong-ly,” she says.

She says that her journeyin the Hindi film industry

has been a rough one. “Itwas never smooth. Butthere’s this beautifulsaying, which my dadnever tires of quoting,‘If you are sailing instill water, it is notcalled sailing’. In questto achieve higher,there are ups anddowns and it took mea while to understandthis roller coaster ride.Initially, it was lovely asI was doing a lot offilms and advertise-

ments but then onemajor failure pushed meback. I blamed myself forthe wrong decision andstarted comparing my lifewith others. It took a lotof self analysis and med-itation to get out of thatphase. I realised that thisindustry can turn youinto gold or into dust.”Initially, her mentalhealth issues botheredher but the way forwardhas given her a lot to bethankful for.

For Esha, thescript and her role in afilm matter more thanthe director. On herchoice of films, shesays, “I am very clearthat either I want todo films like Oneday: JusticeD e l i v e r e d ,Chakravyuh or formoney where I amlooking amazing,dancing and act-ing dumb. Noteveryone takes therisk of doing such

films.” O f t e n

actors relate tocharacters or

imbue them withfeatures that are personal to give themmore depth. “The entire idea aboutacting is acting. I never relate to anyof my characters on a personal level.If I have to actually do it, then I am notacting. I am glad that I get to live somany characters in each film. You needto have a strong hold of your senses somuch so that when you go back home,you are still the same person else it canmess you up. However, in this charac-ter there is one thing that she wouldlove to incorporate and add to her per-sonality. She guffaws and says, “Givena chance, I would love to beat crimi-nals and rapists and kick them in theirballs.”

Cherishing her debut character,Jhanvi Tomar, which is her favouritetoo, the actress says that she is all setto try out her skills in a web series thatwould start streaming in September.

(The film releases on July 5.)

Reams are written aboutcricket, the nationalobsession, while other

sports seem to fall by the way-side especially with the WorldCup fever dominating the air-waves, mindspace and the web.And if you happen to namerugby, it might not even passmuster alongside hockey, bad-minton or tennis. And if youfurther prefix women, it is morethan likely to fall by the wayside.

But then stereotypes exist sothat they can be broken. In analmost Chak De! India moment,the 15-member Indian Women’sRugby team earned its spurs bydefeating a much higher-rankedSingapore team at the AsiaRugby Women’s ChampionshipDivision 1, held at Manila,Philippines. The team, formedbarely a year ago, finished thirdand won a historic bronze in the15-a-side four nation tourna-ment, which also involvedChina and Philippines.

Sumitra Nayak, from Jajpurin Odisha, who began playingRugby at 11 in 2009, had alwaysdreamt of flying abroad to rep-resent her country in the game.

She said, “I come from avery poor family. I always want-ed to travel in a flight and playinternational tournaments. Iwas inspired by my brother whoplayed rugby and representedIndia at the Men’s World Cup afew years ago. The first win forme was clearing the test that istaken before being selected fora particular tournament. In2014, I had gone to England forUnder-13 RugbyChampionship.”

The player says that it wasall because of the support andtraining that she received fromher family and her institute,KISS (Kalinga Institute of SocialSciences) that she could touchsuch heights. “Everything hap-

pened because of Samanta(Achyuta) sir and my mother.They are my inspiration and asource of encouragement. Theysupported me throughout,taught me to dream big andwork harder in order to achievethe desired goals. Sir has givenus facilities including education,sports at free of cost. Apart fromthat, international coaches fromdifferent countries were hired totrain us for international match-es.”

While women playingrugby is seen as a highly uncon-ventional choice in India, shetold us the reason for choosingthe sport, “I always wanted toplay but I was not sure of thesport that I wanted to focus on.When I joined KISS, I playedrugby for the first time and wasinstantly fascinated with it. Theway the players run while hold-ing the ball, the procedure of thegame, it’s fun to play.”

Talking about a few otherplayers in the team, who also

belong the same institute asSumitra’s, Achyuta Samanta,founder of KISS and KIIT, said,“Like Sumitra, every playerfrom our institute also has aninspiring story. We are tryingour best to bring manyunknown talents to the lime-light and give them internation-al exposure since the last 28years. Due to dedicated andcontinuous efforts, today manystudents have been bringing lau-rels to Odisha as well as Indiain sports. We are currentlytraining students for Olympics,Asian and CommonwealthGames as well.”

It was in 2006, when rugbywas introduced in the cur-riculum of the tribal studentsof the institute, “at a time whenit wasn’t even that prominent inthe country.”

Talking about how thereshould be a steady develop-ment in infrastructure in thecountry, Sumitra said, “I don’tsee it happening on a very large

scale but I feel that such match-es should continue and onlythen will it get the recognitionthat it deserves. It’s gainingpopularity in Odisha but itshould reach out to more peo-ple. More training centres andcoaches should be set up inother states. Even though thegame is not very popular inIndia as compared to othersports, but a victory like thismight give it the fillip that itneeds. If we keep representingour nation abroad, it mightinspire other people to take itup.”

Mahesh Mathai, secretarygeneral, Rugby India, said,“Women’s rugby XVs hasgrown leaps and bounds in thecountry, from not having anywomen’s Rugby XVs beingplayed in two years ago to hav-ing over 35 Rugby XVs teamplaying competitively today, ithas grown manifolds.”

More power to thesewomen achievers.

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President Donald Trump haswarned that Iran is "playing

with fire" after Tehranannounced that it has exceed-ed the limit on enriched ura-nium reserves under the 2015nuclear deal from which the USwalked out last year.

His statement came asSecretary of State MikePompeo, in a strongly-wordedstatement, asked Tehran tohalt enrichment of uranium.

Monday marked the firsttime Iran is known to havebreached the terms of the deal.

The International AtomicEnergy Agency confirmed Iranhad exceeded the limit that thedeal imposed on its stockpile oflow-enriched uranium.

Trump told reporters at theWhite House that Iran is "play-ing with fire" as Secretary ofState Mike Pompeo in a strong-ly worded statement askedTehran to halt enrichment ofuranium.

"The Iranian regime,armed with nuclear weapons,would pose an even greater

danger to the region and to theworld.

The United States is committed to negotiating anew and comprehensive dealwith the Iranian regime toresolve its threats to interna-tional peace and security,"Pompeo said.

As long as Iran continuesto reject diplomacy and expandits nuclear programme, theeconomic pressure and diplo-

matic isolation will intensify, hesaid.

Alleging that the Iranianregime has taken new steps toadvance its nuclear ambitions,Pompeo said that the world'sleading state sponsor of ter-rorism continues to use itsnuclear programme to extortthe international communityand threaten regional security.

"No nuclear deal shouldever allow the Iranian regime

to enrich uranium at any level.Starting in 2006, the UnitedNations Security Councilpassed six resolutions requiringthe regime to suspend allenrichment and reprocessingactivity. It was the right stan-dard then; it is the right stan-dard now.

"The Trump administra-tion calls on the internationalcommunity to restore the long-standing nonproliferation stan-dard of no enrichment forIran's nuclear programme. Iranhas the uncontested ability topursue peaceful nuclear ener-gy without domestic enrich-ment," Pompeo said.

Trump told reporters at theWhite House that he has nomessage for Iran, but theyshould know that they areplaying with fire.

"No message to Iran. Theyknow what they're doing. Theyknow what they're playingwith. And I think they're play-ing with fire. So, no message toIran whatsoever," said the USPresident in response to aquestion.

In a separate statement,

White House Press SecretaryStephanie Grisham said thatthe Iranian regime took actionto increase its uranium enrich-ment.

"It was a mistake under theIran nuclear deal to allow Iranto enrich uranium at any level.There is little doubt that evenbefore the deal's existence, Iranwas violating its terms. Wemust restore the longstandingnonproliferation standard of noenrichment for Iran.

The United States and itsallies will never allow Iran todevelop nuclear weapons," shesaid.

"Maximum pressure on theIranian regime will continueuntil its leaders alter theircourse of action. The regimemust end its nuclear ambitionsand its malign behaviour,"Grisham added.

Under the 2015 nucleardeal, Iran had agreed to cap itsstockpile of low-enriched ura-nium at 300 kilograms, one ofthe several restrictions on itsnuclear activities, in exchangefor the lifting of almost allinternational sanctions.

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Fourteen seamen have diedin a fire on a deep sub-

mersible, Russia's defence min-istry said Tuesday, the latest ina string of disasters and acci-dents to hit the country's navy.

The tragedy in the farnorth has echoes of the sinkingof the Kursk submarine in2000 that claimed the lives of118 personnel and shook thefirst year of Vladimir Putin'spresidency.

"On July 1, a fire broke outduring biometric measure-ments on a scientific researchdeep-sea submersible," thedefence ministry said.

Fourteen crew died as aresult of poisoning from the

fumes of the fire in Russia's ter-ritorial waters, a ministryspokeswoman confirmed toAFP.

The fire has been put out,the ministry said, adding aninvestigation was under way.

"The investigation is beingconducted by the commander-in-chief of the navy." Theresearch was conducted tostudy areas near the seabed andthe seabed itself of the ocean inthe interests of the Russiannaval fleet, according to theministry.

The vessel is now situatedat a military base in the closednorthern city of Severomorskwhich is located on the KolaPeninsula above the ArcticCircle.

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At least 45 people were killedand more than 100 injured

in central Nigeria when a petroltanker crashed off the road andexploded as people gatheredfuel, the emergency servicessaid on Tuesday.

The truck overturned close to shops as it was travellingthrough the village of Ahumbein Benue state on Monday.

Local residents rushed tocollect the leaking gasoline forover an hour before the fuelcaught fire, causing a blast thattore through the surroundingarea.

"We have recovered 45corpses of the dead while 101others sustained serious fireburns," Benue state FederalRoad Safety Commission SectorCommander Aliyu Baba toldAFP.

"From the look of things andconsidering their condition,many of them might not sur-vive."

Baba said a pregnant

woman and at least two children were among those whohad died and two firefightershad sustained serious burns.

He said the blaze beganwhen a bus laden with passen-gers tried to pass the scene andits exhaust pipe scraped alongthe ground causing sparks to fly.

"Sixteen of the passengers inthe vehicle, including the twochildren and the pregnantwoman, were instantly burnt todeath," Baba said.

Police and emergency ser-vices crews were working toclear the tanker's charred hulkfrom the road, an AFP reporterat the scene said.

At least one building wasgutted by the explosion. Localsspoke of their shock.

"I lost a brother and twoothers are seriously burnt and inthe hospital. They were trappedin the fire when the truckexploded for a second time," res-ident Ade Derfer told AFP.

Earlier a spokesman for thelocal council said that over 64people were killed in the inci-dent, but the police did not givea toll.

Petrol tanker and pipelineblasts are common in Nigeria,where despite the country'smulti-billion-dollar oil and gasindustry, most people live inpoverty.

Fires and explosions oftenoccur as people try to siphonfuel from pipelines and also fol-lowing accidents involving fueltankers on badly-maintainedroads.

In January, at least eight peo-ple were killed in Odukpani, inthe southeastern state of CrossRiver, in an accident of this kind.

In July 2012, at least 104people were killed and some 50others injured in the southernstate of Rivers.

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Oman on Tuesday denied ithas agreed to establish

diplomatic relations with Israel,a day after the Israeli intelligencechief said his country wasrenewing ties.

Reports on the "establish-ment of diplomatic relationsbetween the sultanate and Israelare baseless", the foreign min-istry said on Twitter.

"The sultanate is keen to cre-ate diplomatic conditions torestore communication betweenall international and regionalparties to work on achievingpeace between the PalestinianAuthority and Israel, resulting in

an independent Palestinianstate," it said.

On Monday, the head ofIsrael's Mossad intelligenceagency, Yossi Cohen, said hiscountry was establishing "formalrelations" with Oman.

"Just recently, renewal of for-mal relations with Oman wasdeclared and the establishmentof a representative office of the(Israeli) foreign ministry in thatcountry," he told a security con-

ference in Herzliya, near TelAviv. Oman's statement onTuesday made no mention of anIsraeli representative office.

Israel and Oman agreed toopen trade representative officesin the 1990s, but in 2000 theGulf sultanate closed them afterthe outbreak of the secondPalestinian intifada.

In October, Israeli PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahuheld surprise talks with Oman'sSultan Qaboos in Muscat.

The move raised Palestinianfears of a normalisation of ties.

Last week, Oman said itwould open an embassy in thePalestinian territories, in a firstfor a Gulf Arab state.

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Dozens of shipping con-tainers full of waste will be

returned to France and otherdeveloped countries, Indonesiasaid Tuesday, as SoutheastAsian nations increasinglyreject serving as dumpinggrounds for international trash.

The 49 containers wereloaded with a combination ofgarbage, plastic waste and haz-ardous materials in violation ofimport rules, according to cus-toms officials on Batam island.

"We are coordinating thewith the importer to immedi-ately process their return," cus-toms office spokesmanSumarna, who goes by onename, told AFP.

The waste came from theUnited States, Australia, France,Germany and Hong Kong, headded.

Last month, Jakartareturned five containers ofwaste to the United States,joining a chorus of SoutheastAsian nations that are increas-ingly unhappy about being used as dumpinggrounds for trash from Westerncountries.

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Sri Lanka's ex-defence secre-tary Hemasiri Fernando and

suspended police chief PujithJayasundera were arrested onTuesday, a day after theAttorney General instructedthe authorities to charge themfor their failure to prevent theEaster terror attacks thatclaimed 258 lives.

Jayasundera and Fernandowere suspended by PresidentMaithripala Sirisena for theiralleged inaction on the intelli-gence shared by India, whichwarned of an impending attackby Islamic militants, and there-by, failing to prevent the serialblasts on April 21.

Police SpokespersonRuwan Gunasekara said thatboth men were at differenthospitals undergoing treatmentwhen police arrested them.

Jayasundara was arrestedfrom the Police Hospital whileFernando was taken into cus-tody at the Colombi NationalHospital.

The duo were scheduled toappear before the CID.

In a letter to acting policechief ChandanaWickremaratne, AttorneyGeneral Dappula de Livera onMonday said the duo should betried for "grave crimes againsthumanity" for their failure toprevent the Easter Sundaybombings.

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An Indian national wasamong nine people injured

in an attack by Yemeni rebelson Abha international airportin southern Saudi Arabia onTuesday, a spokesperson of theSaudi-led military coalitionsaid.

"A terrorist attack at AbhaInternational Airport...Led tothe injury of 9 civilians - eightSaudis and one Indian nation-al," Coalition for the Support ofLegitimacy in Yemenspokesperson Colonel Turkial-Maliki said in a statement.

All injured are stable and

under treatment at hospitals, Colonel al-Malikiwas quoted as saying by thestate-owned Saudi PressAgency (SPA).

He blamed the Houthimilitia for the attack, whichtook place shortly after mid-night on Tuesday.

"In the face of these acts ofterrorism and the immoralviolations by the Houthi ter-rorist militia, the command ofthe coalition forces continues tocarry out strict measures todeter these terrorist militias inorder to protect the civilian andcivilian assets," Colonel al-Maliki said.

"The terrorist elementsresponsible for the planningand execution of this terrorist attack will be heldaccountable in accordance withinternational humanitarian lawand its customary rules," headded.

Air traffic at the airportwas not affected by the inci-dent, tweeted the airportauthorities.

Earlier, the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV said the rebels"launched a wide operationtargeting warplanes at Abhainternational airport" withdrones. The UAE strongly con-demned the attack.

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Beijing: China said on Tuesdayit regrets Iran's decision toexceed a limit on enriched ura-nium reserves under a 2015nuclear deal, but said US "max-imum pressure is the root cause"of tensions.

Iran said Monday it hadmade good on its warning thatit would breach the limit,prompting US President DonaldTrump to warn that Tehranwas "playing with fire".

The United States withdrewfrom the nuclear deal last yearand hit Iran's crucial oil exports

and financial transactions as wellas other sectors with bitingsanctions. Tehran, which hassought to pressure the remain-ing parties to save the deal,announced on May 8 that itwould no longer respect thelimit set on its enriched urani-um and heavy water stockpiles.

It threatened to abandonfurther nuclear commitmentsunless the remaining partners —Britain, China, France, Germanyand Russia -- helped it circum-vent sanctions, especially to sellits oil. AFP

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paper has taken a hard lineagainst pro-democracy pro-testers in Hong Kong, sayingdemonstrators who broke intothe local legislature showedtheir "arrogance" and had noregard for the rule of law.

Chinese state media ranfootage of police in Hong Kongclearing protesters from streetsearly Tuesday in a break with their silence over days ofpro-democracy demonstra-tions that have challengedBeijing's authority over the semi-autonomous Chineseterritory.

Beijing has largely soughtto downplay the demonstra-tions that have highlighteddoubts about the validity of its"one country, two systems"formula for governing the for-mer British colony.

Its coverage of the protestsand the publication of a harsheditorial in the officialCommunist Party newspaperGlobal Times may indicate it isprepared to take a tougherline against the demonstratorsfollowing days of forbearance.

"These violent assailantsin their arrogance pay no heed

to Hong Kong's law, no doubtarousing the anger and sadnessof all people of the city of HongKong," the editorial said.

Television imagesshowed police moving intoroads surrounding the leg-islative council, where pro-testers smashed through glassand metal barriers to occu-py the space for about threehours on Monday night untilpolice moved in shortly aftermidnight.

Veteran opposition fig-ure Joshua Wong acknowl-edged that the damage to thelegislative offices has drawncriticism from some sectorsin the Asian financial hub.

But he said mass partic-ipation in marches and ral-lies over previous weeksshowed there was agroundswell of support forthe demonstrators' goals ofdemanding more account-ability from the administra-tion of Hong Kong ChiefExecutive Carrie Lam.

"I understand people inHong Kong and around theworld might not 100% agreeor disagree on all of thebehavior of protesters ... Butall of the requests have beenignored. So, is there any wayout?" Wong said.

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ror group were arrested byAustralian police on Tuesday forallegedly plotting to carry outterrorist attacks on several tar-gets including police stations,embassies, courts and church-es in Sydney.

The three men have beenarrested following counter ter-rorism raids in six properties ofSydney's west.

The Australian FederalPolice Assistant CommissionerIan McCartney said the men,aged 20, 23 and 30, would becharged with a range of "serious

offences", from being a mem-ber of a terrorist organisation,Islamic State, acts in prepara-tion of a terrorist attack inAustralia, and preparations toenter a foreign country withthe intent of hostile activities.

Police said one of theaccused, Isaak el Matari, hadbeen monitored since return-ing from Lebanon last year.

Police believe the plans forlocal terror attacks were in"early stage preparations".

"We will say that they hada number of targets, includingpolice stations, defence estab-lishments, embassies andcouncils, courts and churches,"McCartney said.

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India sealed their semi-final berth notso much in style as with hard work andsweat as a spirited Bangladesh first

downsized their mounting total from anexpected 350 plus to 314 and then whenall looked lost at 179/6 gave Kohli’sbowlers a run for their money before goingout of the tournament head held high.

As India now go into their last matchafter a long day’s slog, they will be hud-dling up on all counts: Need to strength-en the Indian arm down the line whichhas opened itself up to doubts since theEngland match. Against Bangladesh, thebowling figures were: Bhuvneshwar9/51/1; Bumrah 10/1/55/4; Shami 9/68/1;Chahal 10/50/1 and Pandya 10/60/3. Also,under scrutiny will be the performance ofthe Indian middle order and lower mid-dle over batters around inconsistency,Rishabh Pant’s 48 coming in as solace onTuesday.

Going into the semi-finals, India can’tafford to look ordinary, especially not atthe hands of lesser teams like Bangladeshand Afghanistan, not to mention Englandwho had come to the clash after back toback defeats and despite that showed upthe Indian arm as well as the bat with love-ly batting and bowling.

India singular dream story has been

Sharma who took his Man of the Matchaward yet again after his team mountedtheir campaign for the next round on hisscintillating century, fourth in this WorldCup which had him zooming to the topspot of tournament run machines with544 runs, and an opening partnership of180 runs in as many balls. This makesSharma only the second cricketer to makeas many centuries in a World Cup, follow-ing Sangakkara.

Sharma on surcharge, Virat Kohliwalking to his second much under 50score, Dhoni failing to accelerate in the last10 overs despite a 100 per cent personalstrike rate and Bangladesh bowlers clip-ping the “massive” total to just a “sizeable”one on a dazzling fifer by their bowler ofthe day Mustafizur Rahman who unfold-ed a two-wicket maiden over and endedwith two wickets and just two runs in thelast over — these were some of the pingpong stories that shaped Act 1 of the India-Bangladesh clash at Edgbaston.

Peppering the story was the youngRishabh Pant with 48 valuable runs as No4 even as Hardik Pandya fizzled out in justtwo balls for a duck. After a shocking andperhaps match changing drop catch byTamim Iqbal at square leg, Sharma, thenat 9, lit the fire for most part of his inningspacking the ball off to the boundary bothaerially and grounded, showing a full

blown and colourful performance wheelin the middle.

His stylish, almost lazy, aggression wasthe story of the first innings for India ashe hammered all the Bangladeshi bowlers,nonplussing them with a flurry of sixesand fours in shots that spoke of his acu-men, ability and chutzpah with the bat. Hekicked off the scoreboard fest with a sixin the first over itself, posting MashrafeMortaza over the square leg boundary toopen his account with his favourite pullshot. The second came in the sixth over,targeting Saifuddin and then onwards notsparing any from the Bangla arms brigade.His century, balanced, fascinating and thefourth in this World Cup came in 92 ballswith seven boundaries and five sixes.

As the cheering crowds started chant-ing for the double, Sharma’s run came toa sudden halt with Soumya Sarkar’s off-breaker catching his bat errantly to behived off by Liton Das running into extracover. Sharma's post century patch showedup for the second time in a row. He hadwalked for 102 in the last match againstEngland when he was equally sure-foot-ed. Sharma had then talked of the needfor him to bat deep into the innings tobuild up fearlessness for the late middleorder to take risks, but that was not to be.

When he returned for 104 runs, KLRahul was in his 70s looking for his maid-en ton in the World Cup. Rahul's showwas no less solid though it took a back-seat to a typical Sharma run race whichhas been habitually winning hearts in thistournament. But soon after Rahul erredon the wrong side of caution to sliceRubel Hussein right into the gloves of thewicket-keeper Mushfiqur Rahim whenhe was at 77 which he stitched up in 92balls, hitting six fours and a six. Thisbrought in jerseys 17 and 18 (Pant andKohli) to hold fort with the young gunnewbie coming in at the highly debatedNo 4 slot.

Pant brought in India’s 200 in the33rd over with a classy and reassuring sixlong over the long on boundary, livingup to his destructive reputation. But justwhen a partnership was building up,Kohli got out uncharacteristically at 26in 27 balls with 3 fours bringing downthe third wicket at 237 in 38 overs. This

was the second time Kohli didn't get tohis 50 in the tournament. Despite a full-throated shot it went to Soumya Sarkaroff Mustafizur at mid-wicket. Rahmangot the other prized scalp of HardikPandya in the next ball.

And then in walked Dhoni to yetanother huge cheer from the expectantcrowd. He scored 35 off 33 balls with fourboundaries and 14 dot balls. In the last10 overs under the stewardship ofDhoni, India scored 63 runs, going from251 to 314.

He played out the last over withouttrying but failing to accelerate. First balldot because Dhoni was not interested ina single. Second dot ball stopped at mid-on. Third ball, he hits high into obliviononly to be caught by Shakib-Al-Hassan,giving Mustafizur his fourth wicket in thismatch and 14th overall. Three balls of thecrucial last over went without runs as hewalked with 35 runs in 33 balls, failingto finish with a flourish. Bhuvneshwarwas run out and the last over went forjust two runs. Not even 100 runs wereadded in the last 12 overs by India evenas Mustafizur got his fifth scalp of thematch in his last ball, clean bowlingMohammed Shami all cross bat and des-perate to get something on the board.

Dhoni will come under scrutiny yetagain, especially when Bangladesh almostcrossed the rubicon later in the inningswith their middle order batsmenSaifuddin and Sabbir picking on thefamed Indian arm to stitch up a 66-runpartnership before Bumrah took awaythe bails of Sabbir when he was 36 in 36balls with five fours.

This partnership in 61 balls wasBangladesh’s highest seventh-wicketpartnership against India, dispersingsome of the talk of the slowed downpitch. Saifuddin went on to score a 51 notout in 38 balls questioning the brillianceof the Indian arm, picking particularlyon Shami. Sabbir hit him for 17 runs inone over with four boundaries. Bumrahcame to India's rescue following up withRubel's wicket and then quelling theBangladesh rebellion at 286 by scalpingMustafizur in the very next ball to giveIndia a 28-run victory over an extreme-ly competitive Bangladesh.

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Abecoming NationalAnthem nugget for

you. When the anthems ofIndia and Bangladesh wereplayed at the EdgbastonCricket ground onTuesday, one man wasresponsible for the lyricsof both, the great

Rabindranath Tagore.Though Asia's first NobelLaureate Tagore had longpassed by the timeBangladesh was created in1971, the nation adoptedthe first 10 lines ofTagore's celebrated poem'Amaar Sona Bangla'which he composed whenBengal was divided in

1905 by the BritishGovernment. The firststanza of Tagore's BharataBhagyo Vidhata wasadopted as India's nationalanthem 'Jana Gana Mana'in 1950. The anthem signi-fies the sharing of culturesby the two countries evenas they fight tooth and nailin the middle today.

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In a first of sorts forTeam India as

many as four quali-fied wicket keeperswere in the playing11 for the matchagainst Bangladesh.MS Dhoni workedout in the companyof Dinesh Kathik, KLRahul and RishabhPant all of them inafter the Team Indiamanagement decideto try out some newcombinations. WhilePant, in as replace-ment for ShikharDhawan, he is thesecond-youngestwicket-keeper andthe first Indian wick-et-keeper to score a

Test century inEngland. Karthik, abatsman who took towicket-keeping as ajunior, debuted in theWorld Cup at age 34.He didn't get to playa match in 2007 asIndia was bundledout in early stages,but missed out in2011 and 2015 edi-tions by not beingpicked. KL Rahul,otherwise openingfor India has beenkeeping wickets inthe domestic circuit.Spoilt for choice,Dhoni could no won-der afford a two-overbreak early in theBangladesh inningswith Pant standingbehind for him.

TIGERS IN STANDS

Asmattering of Bangladeshifans made their way to the

stands on Tuesday as their nationmade their last bid to survive inthe tournament by trying to beatIndia. Though the pockets arenot handsome enough for themost passionate of cricket fans inthe world to travel from theircountry to unaffordable Pound

land, most of those who have set-tled down in England and somefrom Europe came to support

their team with all the colour,noise and their signature stuffedtoy tigers to add colour andmirth to the stands. One of theBangladeshi gentlemen, paintedas a tiger top to bottom includingthe belt and jeans got so animat-ed that he was spotted beingescorted out of his original perchto some other destination whichdid not seem to be the stands bythe look of it.

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Sri Lanka needed someinspiration from this ICCMen’s Cricket World Cup

2019 to build from and take usforward into the next fouryears. Avishka Fernando justprovided it.

His 104 against the WestIndies was an incredibleinnings and he showed to theworld that we have somethingto rally around leading into thenext tournament.

It has been a tough coupleof years for Sri Lanka but wehave learned our lessons. It isimportant that we plan around

a group of players who will bethere for the next four yearsand I think Avishka has shownhe has to be a big part of that.

I was very impressed fromthe first game that he playedagainst England a couple ofweeks ago, he came in changedthe tempo right from the startin what proved to be a vitalinnings.

His knock here won’tcome as a surprise to manypeople in Sri Lanka. It hasbeen obvious from the begin-ning that he has a lot of talent.

He showed character. He

was aggressive and playedwith intent, refusing to shyaway from the West Indiespacey attack. It was gutsy.

He will take a lot of con-fidence from this and he hasnow proven to himself that hecan go on and do it on theinternational stage.

I first spotted him at U19sbut then all of a sudden he waschucked in against Australiaand the might of MitchellStarc and Pat Cummins beforeeven playing a first-classmatch.

He was just 18 at the time,

perhaps it was a bit early forhim, but he went away for ayear and has come backstronger. Admittedly, he hasstruggled with consistency butthe selectors have always hadfaith.

I thought he might startthe tournament but the selec-tors understandably went withexperience. But at this tourna-ment has progressed, it’s beenclear we have needed a spark.And there is it.

Saturday marks Sri Lanka’sfinal game in this tournamentbut it certainly won’t be the last

for opponents India.They have been consistent

throughout and will challengestrongly for the trophy. Theirspinners, despite being beatenup a bit by England, havebeen excellent and I thinktheir batting line-up is asstrong as anything else outthere.

Rohit Sharma and ViratKohli are in excellent form.Sharma has three centuriesand, although Kohli is yet toreach three figures, he won’ betoo frustrated. He knows he isplaying well, with five straight

fifties to his name.Early-tournament form

only gets you so far and Indiawill know it will all start forthem again in the semi-finalsshould they, as expected, bethere.

Everything you have doneup to there must be left aside.You need to execute two biggames to win but the signs aregood for both India andAustralia.

It’s going to be a brilliantlast week of cricket.

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West Indies captain JasonHolder vowed to "look

after" Nicholas Pooran after hismaiden one-day internationalcentury so nearly led to astunning World Cup win overSri Lanka.

Sri Lanka posted animposing 338 for six, a totalbuilt on Avishka Fernando'sfirst hundred at this level, in amatch between two sideswhose hopes of qualifying forthe semi-finals had alreadyevaporated before a ball wasbowled at Chester-le-Street onMonday.

But Pooran, well support-ed by Fabian Allen (51), got theWest Indies close to a target of339 -- which would have beena new World Cup record for a

winning side batting second -- before they lost by 23 runs.

Defeat meant the WestIndies have now lost sevenmatches in a row after startingthe tournament with animpressive win over Pakistan.

But Holder took somecomfort from 23-year-old left-hander Pooran's century.

"Nicholas played an out-standing innings, he knockedit around as easily as he possi-bly could," said Holder as hereflected on Pooran's 118 off103 balls, including 11 foursand four sixes.

"What he has produced iswhat we expect him to pro-duce, we want him to get bet-ter and improve," the all-rounder added.

"We selected him for areason and gave him full back-

ing to go and play the game hewants to play.

"Yes he will make mistakesas a young player but it isimportant for development totake place.

"We will look afterNicholas the best we possiblycan, I expect big things.

"He has got the talent,ability to change gears, he canimprovise, has every shot in thelocker and it is just a matter ofhim putting it together moreoften."

For the West Indies, thewinners of the first two WorldCups back in 1975 and 1979,it was yet another case of whatmight have been after theysquandered chances to beatreigning champions Australiaand then saw CarlosBrathwaite fall just short ofwhat would have been amatch-winning six againstNew Zealand.

"It is disappointing tocome so close on a number ofstages and not get that win,"said Holder.

The West Indies end theirinvolvement at this World Cupagainst Afghanistan, stillsearching for their first win ofthe tournament, on Thursday.

"We have shown somefight this entire campaign,"said Holder.

"I'm proud of certain indi-viduals who definitely put theirhands up and put their heartson the line."

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Spinner Dhananjaya de Silvais eyeing an upset against

India in Sri Lanka’s finalmatch to lift his side into fifthplace in the ICC Men’s CricketWorld Cup 2019 group table.

Sri Lanka’s topsy-turvytournament continued inDurham with a 23-run victo-ry over West Indies, just fourdays after their were beaten bynine wickets on the sameground by South Africa.

This was their third victo-ry in the tournament andwhile they can no longer qual-ify for the semi-finals, theyhave already upset hostsEngland and de Silva believesthey can claim another scalpagainst Virat Kohli’s side atHeadingley.

Sri Lanka have won onlyone of their last eight ODIsagainst India but they didbeat them by seven wickets inthe ICC Champions Trophy2017 at The Oval.

And the game is a repeat

of the 2011 ICC Men’s CricketWorld Cup final in Mumbaiwhich India won.

The 27-year-old off-spin-ner admitted that his sidehave nothing to lose againstone of the favourites to lift the

trophy at Lord’s on July 14th.He said: “We’ve done well

against India in other ICCtournaments and we’ve justbeaten West Indies so if wecan take that confidence andmomentum into the nextgame then we can beat Indiaagain.

“We’re trying hard to winevery game and if we beatIndia then we can finish fifth.”

He admitted that the deci-sion to bring Angelo Mathewson to bowl was a surprisingone given that the formercaptain had not bowled in anODI for 18 months.

However, Mathews hadWindies centur y-makerNicholas Pooran caughtbehind with his first ball andtilted the enthralling gameback in Sri Lanka’s favour.

De Silva said: “Angelo puthis hand up and he did thejob.”

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West Indies flattered to deceive inthis World Cup after a roaring

start and their young batsmanNicholas Pooran says the team is tar-geting the home series against Indianext month to restore pride.

West Indies, who had thumpedPakistan by seven wickets in theirWorld Cup opener, have now lostseven games in a row. They are leftwith only one game againstAfghanistan and will aim to end theirotherwise disappointing campaign ona high.

Pooran, who struck his maidenODI hundred against Sri Lanka in alosing cause, wants to use his side'sforgettable run as a learning experi-

ence. "This hasn't been a successfultournament for us but as sportsmenyou fail more than you win and thishas been a learning experience," hesaid after his 118-run contributionhere on Monday.

"We have a young team and ayoung batting line-up. Hopefully a lotof guys like me, Shimron Hetmyer,Shai Hope and Fabian Allen havelearned from this tournament.Hopefully when we play our nextseries against India we can start head-ing in the right direction and restorepride in West Indies cricket."

It's the third time West Indiescome close to a big scalp in recentweeks, after also losing out narrowlyto Australia and New Zealand.

Pooran and Allen looked to have

put the Windies on top before Allenwas run out for which Pooran said he'felt a bit responsible'. The batsmanwas then the victim of AngeloMathews' first ball in ODI cricket for18 months.

"Myself and Fabian were in con-trol. The bowlers didn't know whereto bowl and we were scoring easily.This is cricket, it's unfortunate. I hadto capitalise in that over. I could havehit the ball for four and six and it's adifferent game. I'm just disappointed.We are just finding ways to lose ourgames."

Pooran has been marked out as aspecial player from a young age andthis was his coming of age on the bigstage, despite being on the wrong sideof the result.

He acknowledges the compar-isons with Brian Lara and admits thathe watched a lot of film of the greatman but does not intend to fuel thehype.

"I know people say a lot of thingsabout me but if I don't perform on thefield it makes no sense. I just want toget better and better each day. I havehad a lot of starts in this tournamentbut not converted.

"I don't know what the futureholds - I'm just thankful that I got theopportunity to play and I could showthe selectors that I could play. I don'twant to be like anyone else, I just wantto be Nicholas Pooran."

India's tour of West Indies beginsAugust 3 and comprises three T20s, asmany ODIs and two Tests.

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Fast bowler Pat Cummins says the T20series win in India just four months ago

instilled self belief in the strugglingAustralian team that it could defend its WorldCup title in the United Kingdom.

Australia have turned out to be the teamto beat in this World Cup as they have alreadyqualified for the semifinals with 14 pointsfrom eight games. The defending champions'only loss in the tournament so far cameagainst India.

Struggling for a major part in ODI crick-et for the last two years, having lost 17 outof 21 matches between September 2017 andFebruary 2019, Australia had slipped to sixthin the ICC ODI rankings.

Cummins said the away series winsover India earlier this year, especially the T20rubber, gave them confidence that they candefend their ODI World Cup crown.

"I think that Indian series win, probablythe T20 series win, to be honest," Cumminssaid about the successful tour to India, whichaccording to him started Australia's revival.

"At Bangalore, Maxi (Glenn Maxwell) hita hundred and we won seemingly out ofnowhere. It gave us real confidence, the best

side in the world, in their own conditions."Maxwell hit a century in the second T20I

in Bangalore to power Australia to a 2-0series win, after Cummins had hit the win-ning runs in a thrilling last-ball finish inVishakhapatnam in the first game.

In the ODIs that followed, Australia cameback from 0-2 down to win the next threematches and pocket the five-match series 3-2."It's pretty infectious when you have thatfeeling around the group. Luckily, we haveheld on to it," Cummins said.

Cummins, who was the leading wicket-taker in the ODI series against India with 14scalps, said Australia have managed to carryon their form since then.

"It really felt like a special group, a cou-ple of really special wins where we felt likewe could win from anywhere."

Talking about Australia's impressiveWorld Cup campaign so far, Cummins said:"Everything has clicked, the batting, thebowling, our game plan. We have come sofar and we are playing the way we have talkedabout for a while that we wanted to play."

Having already bagged a semifinal berth,Australia will round off the league campaignwith a match against already-eliminatedSouth Africa on Saturday here.

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I haven’t seen the wicket yet, so ourselection decision and the balance of the sidewill be down to the wicket and what wethink is the most effective against the NewZealand batting line-up.�How is Jason Roy after his ailment? Thatis a great boost as he’s in terrific form.

He's good. He’s going to be fit. He has,yeah, fantastic form. Him and Jonny at thetop of the order in the Indian game did real-ly set the tone for our innings on a wicketthat we didn't feel was that good to bat on,so they took us up past a par score whichis great. Jonny scoring runs is a huge bonus,you know, and when he’s in good form he'sextremely hard to bowl at at the top of theorder.�Does it give you a boost that NZ has losttwo games?

We haven’t necessarily looked at it likethat. The most satisfying thing from the lastgame from our side is that we went out andplayed our brand of cricket. We wereallowed to do that at the beginning, the waythe two guys played. It felt more like the waythat we play and the fact that we won doingthat is extremely encouraging.�Has it sharpen England the fact theyknow there is no room for error now?

Two defeats does that (smiling). It wasclear that after the Australia game, there wasa huge amount of disappointment in thechanging room and the fact that we havebeen able to turn that around, identify wherewe are at and identify what we need to doin order to progress to the semis, madethings clear about how we want to contin-ue to play, which haven't changed, isimportant and it's been effective.�How would you describe KaneWilliamson’s leadership?

Kane is an extremely good leader. I haveplayed with him at Hyderabad. In the chang-ing room, he wasn't a captain at the time Iwas there, but he is an impressive leader. Theway he goes about his business is extreme-ly admirable. He is a quality, quality crick-eter who is extremely humble and open tolearning all the time and offers his time toanybody as well.�Everybody is saying ‘'it is coming home’.What are you tellingyour boys?

It’s a matter of staying in the moment,identifying what we can do in order to con-tribute to the next game, which is tomor-row. Today, is getting enough to put your-self in good form for tomorrow, or goodhead space to try and effectively win a gameof cricket.�Is it to fair to say the New Zealand gamein the last World Cup was probably rockbottom? Can you reflect on that.

Yeah. It was as close to rock bottom asI’ve been, certainly as a captain, as a play-er, being beaten off the park like that ishumiliating. The influence, I think the influ-ence throughout that whole World Cup onall the other teams around the world wasquite extreme. New Zealand proved a pointthat you can be really good humans andgrow the game and play cricket in your ownway and win at the same time, which isincredibly eye-opening for a lot of countriesaround the world. I thought that rubbed offon everybody in the World Cup.�Do you see Guptill as a massive threatand the fact that he is out of form, is it amatter of time before he explodes?

It’s difficult to tell. We don’t identify oneparticular player in any side. They are a verystrong line-up, probably built around Kaneat 3 and Ross at 4, obviously two huge play-ers for them. But very destructive playerseither side of that.

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would see them into the semi-finals.Even a defeat would not spell the end

of either team’s chances of emerging as oneof the top four from the 10-team round-robin phase.

Were England to lose in Chester-le-Street, Pakistan could leapfrog them intothe top four with victory over Bangladesh.

Given that they play each other intheir final pool match, only one ofBangladesh — who also still have to face

India — or Pakistan can draw level withNew Zealand in the event the Black Capslose today.

And, with both Asian teams wellbehind on net run-rate, it would take a bigNew Zealand loss allied to a command-ing Pakistan victory or two Bangladeshwins by big margins, to deny the 2015 los-ing finalists a place in the last four.

But right now, England and NewZealand’s World Cup destiny is in theirown hands.

England travel to the northeast buoyedby a 31-run win over an India side thatwere previously unbeaten.

Sunday’s success against India, theteam that recently replaced England at thetop of the one-day international rankings,came after back-to-back defeats by SriLanka and reigning champions Australiahad led many pundits to question theirtournament nerve and nous.

But the pleasing aspect for England,other than the result, was that the defeatof India was built on many of the factorsthat have been key to their ODI revivalsince a first-round exit at the 2015 WorldCup. Jonny Bairstow (111) and Jason Roy,who made 66 following his return froma hamstring injury, put on 160 for the first

wicket before the in-form Ben Stokes hit79, his third successive fifty, to boost thetotal to 337-7.

England, bidding to win their firstWorld Cup, then kept things tight in thefield, with Chris Woakes impressive andrecalled paceman Liam Plunkett (3-55)once again taking wickets through themiddle overs.

“Winning a game like this, under thepressure we were under, can only stand usin good stead, potentially for the NewZealand game and hopefully after that,”said Woakes.

“You don’t actually play much knock-out cricket, so to put ourselves in the heatof the battle — obviously we’d rather havequalified by now — could potentially helpus.”

By contrast, New Zealand head intothe match following successive losses toPakistan and Australia that have put ataken the gloss off a promising campaign.

An attack led by left-arm quick TrentBoult, who took a hat-trick hero againstAustralia, and featuring the express paceof Lockie Ferguson is a testing propositionfor any side.

New Zealand could now recall anoth-er paceman in Matt Henry at the expenseof spinner Ish Sodhi, given the Riversideis not renowned for turning pitches.

But while several England batsmenhave made hundreds at the World Cup,New Zealand appear dangerously over-reliant on captain Kane Williamson andfellow senior batsman Ross Taylor for runs.

Colin Munro was dropped for theAustralia game, while fellow openerMartin Guptill has managed just 85 runsfrom six innings since his 73 not outagainst Sri Lanka.

Wicketkeeper-batsman Tom Lathamis averaging just 8.2 at this tournament.

“We’re still in charge of our destina-tion and where we’re heading, and that’salways a nice thing to have,” said CraigMcMillan, New Zealand’s batting coach.

“Obviously (Guptill and Latham) areshort on runs but we’re excited by the factthat we haven’t quite clicked as a battinggroup yet.”

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In-form Liam Plunkett returnsto his native North-east laugh-

ing off the idea of beingEngland’s tournament talisman.The absence of the popularpace bowler has been a commonfactor in all three losses for theICC Men’s Cricket World Cuphosts, while he has featured infour of their five successes.

He claimed three wickets inthe crucial 31-run win againstIndia on Sunday, responding tohis latest recall with the wicketsof Virat Kohli, century-makerRohit Sharma and Rishabh Pant.

And with victory over NewZealand at The Riverside todayset to guarantee England a semi-final spot, Plunkett will expectto retain his place for what isanother critical encounter.

Is it simply a case of he playsand England win? “It is nice tohave that,” Plunkett joked.“Actually, I think it’s just the waythings have worked out, but it isnice to play and to play a part ina winning team.

“The India game was like afinal for us so the pressure wason. Nobody was there in ourdressing room celebrating after-wards because we know weneed to win again and get themomentum going. New Zealand

will be like another final.“I don’t think we were more

nervous than usual. The bestthing about us is the way weapproach our cricket. We don’tgo into our shells. If we did, wewould go off into the distance.

“We are told to play posi-tively, express ourselves and if weperform anywhere near ourbest, we will win games. NewZealand are a good team, rightup there, but I think we are readyfor it and we can be positive hav-ing just beaten one of the bestteams in the competition.”

Captain Eoin Morganrecognised Plunkett’s ability totake wickets after the new ballbursts with pace and variations,when he plotted England’s wayback from the disappointmentof 2015. “I am disappointedwhen I’m not playing, but it isn’tabout personal figures,” Plunkettsaid. “It is all about team resultsand asking whether I can keepimproving even at 34.

“I don’t think anyone sulkswhen they are not playing.People will know a player left outis frustrated, but you can’t showit. It will be great now to get backup to the north. I love that partof the country and I know theground.”

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After a fast start, New Zealand’s WorldCup campaign has taken a dent in the

last week with back-to-back defeats toPakistan and Australia.

But Ross Taylor is confident that theBlack Caps’ best cricket is just around thecorner — and victory over England onWednesday in Durham would be the per-fect time to prove it.

The Black Caps were sitting pretty inthe standings after going unbeaten throughtheir first six games of the ICC Men’sCricket World Cup 2019.

A top-four finish appeared guaranteedand it would still take a monumental shiftin net run rate and defeat to England forthem to miss out now.

And while Taylor admits New Zealandhave stalled of late, he is desperate to comeout firing on Wednesday in Durham tosecure their semi-final spot and put thehosts’ own ambitions in real doubt.

“There's still a long way to go in thistournament and hopefully we are not toofar away to playing the brand of cricket weknow we can play because we definitelyhaven't played up to our potential so far andhopefully that is not too far away,” he said.

“We definitely haven't got the momen-tum that we would have liked in the lastcouple of games, but tomorrow is a differ-ent story against different opposition.

“We know we have played England alot over the last little while and looking for-ward to hopefully different conditionsthan the last two matches that we have hadto play on.”

The Black Caps bowling attack, spear-headed by Trent Boult and Lockie Ferguson,have been impressive all tournament.

But the batsmen have yet to fully fire— with the exception of skipper KaneWilliamson.

Taylor — who knows Durham well

after a spell here as a county overseas — hastwo half centuries this tournament but nobig score while opener Martin Guptill hasnot passed 50 since their tournamentopener.

“I’d love as a team to take a little bit ofpressure off Kane and score some runs andnot let him do everything,” added Taylor.

“Guppy was leading run scorer in thelast World Cup and he had gone into thatlast World Cup not scoring any runs.

“His confidence is down. Sometimesyou need a bit of luck and he certainly needsthat. But he's been training very hard andthe team are fully backing him.

"I have felt good throughout the wholetournament, a couple of strangles down theleg-side and a couple of good balls, that isthe nature of the beast and cricket.

“You know you are not too far awayfrom hopefully getting a few out the mid-dle and getting that confidence up andspending a bit of time in the middle."

And Taylor is hoping that home com-forts in the north east bring the best out ofhim.

“It feels like a long time ago. Durhamwas about nine years ago,” he added. “I havefond memories, lovely people up here.

“Every time we played England in thelast little while it's been a great series, I thinkit came down to the wire in that series backhome and the last time we were here wasa must-win, I think it was 2-all, and JonnyBairstow came in fresh and batted out well.Obviously, another big game coming uptomorrow and hopefully we're up for it.”

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Chile midfielder Arturo Vidalsays the reigning Copa America

champions are focused on makinghistory ahead of their semi-finalagainst Peru.

The 2015 and 2016 championsare aiming for a third continental titlein a row, a feat only achieved oncebefore by Argentina in successiveyears from 1945-47.

“We want to leave our legacy astriple champions, that’s our dream,”said the Barcelona midfielder, anintegral part of Chile’s only two pre-vious Copa successes.

“That’s why we want to play ourbest match of the Copa againstPeru. It would be something historicfor us to get to the final and that's our

aim.”Chile faced Peru in the 2015

semi-finals on home soil when theywon 2-1 before beating Argentina onpenalties in the final for their firstever continental success.

“We need to play the perfectmatch, to win it with authority,”added Vidal. “Peru have great team-work, they play well, very similar toColombia” who Chile beat on penal-ties in the quarter-final.

“That’s why it will be a very dif-ficult match and fantastic to play init.”

Vidal pointed to Peru captainand striker Paolo Guerrero as the

biggest threat Chile will face onWednesday.

Guerrero and Chile’s EduardoVargas, with 12 goals each, are thetop two still active scorers in Copahistory.

“He’s a player who knows howto play against four defenders and italways takes a lot out of us to markhim,” said Vidal.

Vargas, who scored twice inChile’s opening 4-0 thrashing ofJapan, may never have had thechance to add to his Copa ledger, butfor a change of heart by Chile’sColombian coach Reinaldo Rueda.

He spent almost 18 months

overlooked by the Colombian beforebeing recalled for the Copa Americafollowing 17 goals in 49 matches forhis Mexican club side Tigres last sea-son.

It was a good move as Vargas hasbeen electric in the tournamentalongside a rejuvenated AlexisSanchez — who’s looked his old selfafter 18 months of misery atManchester United — and JoseFuenzalida in a three-pronged attack.

This is the third time in the lastfour editions Peru have reached thesemi-finals but they haven’t gone onto the final since 1975 when winningtheir second Copa title.

In fact, the only two timesthey’ve reached the final — the otherwas on home soil in 1939 — theywon the tournament.

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Brazil coach Tite admitted he’s beenhaving sleepless nights ahead of the

Copa America semi-final againstArgentina.

Tite took over from the sackedDunga following Brazil’s poor perfor-mance at the 2016 Centenario CopaAmerica and said that he is just as ner-vous now as he was during his earlymatches in charge of the national team.

“I couldn’t sleep properly, I’m notSuperman, I’m the way I am and I candeal with that,” he said ahead ofTuesday’s late night match in BeloHorizonte’s Mineirao stadium, thescene of Brazil’s 7-1 semi-final humil-iation against Germany at the 2014World Cup.

“Yesterday I woke up at 3.15 am,I was thinking about what I’m goingto do.

“As a coach I always have anotepad next to me to write somethingdown. That’s the reality of being acoach, not just me, (Argentina coachLionel) Scaloni too, all of us.”

This match has been billed as aclash between the individual brillianceof Argentina’s star players such asLionel Messi and Sergio Agueroagainst the collective ability of Brazil.

But Tite said the Argentina teamis more than just a collection of indi-viduals and that it would be impossi-ble to try to just stop those singular tal-ents.

“Argentina make the most ofthose individual talents linking theminto a coherent unit,” he said.

“You can’t eliminate Messi, youmight be able to reduce what he cando but you can’t neutralize a player ofthat level, just as you can’t neutralize(Philippe) Coutinho, (Roberto)Firmino, Willian, David (Neres) — atsome point, they will produce some-thing.”

In goalkeeper Alisson, Brazil haveone player who is used to knockingMessi out of important competitions.

He was in goal in 2017/18 whenRoma came back from a 4-1Champions League first leg deficitagainst Messi’s Barcelona to win 3-0 atRome’s Stadio Olimpico and reach thesemi-finals on away goals.

And in May, having since made athen-world record $ 71 million trans-fer to Liverpool at the start of the sea-son, he was part of the side that pro-duced a remarkable 4-0 victory atAnfield in the Champions Leaguesemi-final second leg after losing thefirst leg 3-0 at the Camp Nou.

“In football there’s no logic, thereare matches where one player makesa difference: I saw that when we playedagainst Messi and he made the differ-ence,” Alisson said about theChampions League first leg betweenBarcelona and Liverpool in whichMessi scored a brace.

“But in the second match our teamprevailed and we qualified.”

He added: “Every match has itsstory; the match with Roma had itsstory, the match with Liverpool hadanother story. Fortunately they weretwo stories that went my way.”

Scaloni was giving little awayabout his team selection, although he'sexpected to stick with much the sameline-up as beat Venezuela 2-0 in thequarter-finals.

That means Messi and Aguerowould line up alongside LautaroMartinez in attack.

“Aguero will play, I’m saying thatbecause I’ve read there's a doubt, so tobe clear,” said Scaloni.

That’s as far as he would go,though.

“No-one’s confirmed for the team,not even Messi. Only Aguero,” headded.

Little was expected of Argentinabefore the tournament but they havebeen improving and this clash betweenthe continent’s two heavyweights iseagerly anticipated.

The pressure, though, is on Brazil“because they’re the hosts and havesomething to prove in front of theirfans,” said Scaloni.

Although he said they were at anadvantage as “they’ve been together along time with the same coach andplayers who’ve played together for along time.”

Argentina, on the other hand, arein a period of transition since their dis-mal 2018 World Cup exit, with sever-al new and inexperienced players inthe squad, as well as a new coach.

Although the West Indies willbid farewell to the WorldCup against Afghanistan on

Thursday, I will be glued to the TVto see what happens in the next twoweeks. We seem set for a thrillingfinale.

Australia are already assured ofa place in the semi-finals and Indiaare likely to join them.

They have been the two stand-out teams for me at this World Cup.They have understood the condi-tions better than any of the othersand have strolled through. That isthe key here.

The wickets in this tournamenthave been excellent. They haveprovided an even contest betweenbat and ball and not become thebatsmen-friendly surfaces somesuggested they could be. Australiaand India are at home on them andthat will be so important when itcomes to the knock-out games.

Australia have a lot of the oldguard still going strong and thatincludes Mitchell Starc. He is oneof the best around right now, knowsthese conditions and is swinging theball perfectly. It will be tough forany side to face him, while AlexCarey — the wicket-keeper —

could well turn out to be the star ofthis World Cup.

Carey was a relative unknownbeforehand but he bats with suchmaturity. He has freedom to attackbut also the technical skills need-ed to find the boundary. He is abolter and I have loved watchinghim play.

India have a selection dilemma.England played the right kind ofgame against them by attacking thespinners and they need to strength-en their batting lower down theorder.

England and New Zealand arelikely to join those sides, while wecan never rule out the excitingPakistan and Bangladesh.

The Tigers have, for me, thebest player in this tournament inShakib Al Hasan. His bowling hasbeen decent but his batting has beenfrom a different planet — just askthe West Indies.

It’s been a tournament of ‘whatifs’ for my team and their defeat toSri Lanka was another example.Nicholas Pooran was outstanding inthe run-chase but lost his wicket atjust the wrong time.

He has done very well in thistournament and is someone we can

really build around going forward.He has a lot of things to learn butthe raw ingredients are there forhim to go on and become a fineplayer for the West Indies over thenext few years.

I think what he has shown he’slearned is that you have to mixaggression with caution. It is nogood making 70 and then holingout at deep mid-off. You have gotto play smart cricket. When you hitit in the air, you have to find a spacewhere there isn’t anyone there. Hitin the ground and you are stillthere.

When you look at it, we havethe talent with the bat. It’s far fromdoom and gloom. Sure, we have tolearn from the mistakes and recti-fy them but I am very optimistic.We have had two centurions at thetournament and it really could, andshould, have been four or five.

Hopefully a couple can produceagainst Afghanistan but it will notbe easy. They have given a verygood account of themselves instages and if they put a whole per-formance together, it will be agood game.

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Eight-time Wimbledon champi-on Roger Federer overcame a

first set scare to reach the secondround on Tuesday beating SouthAfrican debutant LloydHarris 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2.

Federer’s great rivalRafael Nadal also wentthrough in easier fashionbeating Japanese qualifi-er Yuichi Sugita 6-3, 6-1,6-3 to set up a fascinatingtussle with fiery AustralianNick Kyrgios.

Kyrgios — who stunned Nadalas a 144-ranked wildcard on histournament debut in 2014 — put ina typically raucous and charismat-ic display to claim a 7-6 (7/4), 3-6,7-6 (12/10), 0-6, 6-1 win overcountryman Jordan Thompson.

“Not sure that me and Rafacould go down to the Dog & Foxand have a beer together,” said a typ-ically frank Kyrgios on their rela-tionship.

However, Nadal refused toadd fuel to the fire on

Tuesday ahead ofThursday’s clash.

“I am too old to getinto all this stuff,” the 33-year-old said when asked

for his view on facing aman who he accused earli-

er this year of “lacking respect”.“I believed in what I said but I

am not going to get into a fight withanyone.”

Federer admitted it had takentime to get going against a far formover-awed opponent, who was ham-pered later on with a calf injury.

“I struggled early on, my legs

were frozen and the ball was notgoing where I wanted it to,” saidFederer.

“He was hitting big and thingswere going quickly. I was nervousfor a set and a half.

“So it took a good effort fromme. Lloyd played a good match.”

However, while he progressed,another of the top 10 seeds fell bythe wayside — two-time FrenchOpen champion Dominic Thiem'slack of ease on grass being exposedby veteran American serve andvolleyer Sam Querrey.

Querrey, a Wimbledon semi-finalist in 2017, prevailed 6-7 (4/7),7-6 (7/1), 6-3, 6-0.

“There’s still things which arenot easy,” said Thiem.

“I mean, last year and this yeartogether I played four grass courtmatches, which is not a lot at all.

“All the clay court season ittakes a lot out of me,” added the 25-year-old Austrian.

Women’s world number oneAshleigh Barty and defendingchampion Angelique Kerber avoid-ed the fate of second seed NaomiOsaka and came through theirfirst round clashes safely.

Barty beat China’s Zheng Saisai6-4, 6-2 while Kerber, the fourthseed, beat fellow German TatjanaMaria 6-4, 6-3.

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become the first woman sinceSerena Williams in 2015 to winboth the French Open andWimbledon in the same season,drew on the film The Lion King todescribe how she felt leading intothe match.

“Kind of came into it thinkingkind of like hakuna matata (Swahilifor no trouble and a title of a songin the film), just relax and go for it,”said the 23-year-old.

Seven-time champion SerenaWilliams joined them in the secondround, but put in a rather laboriousperformance before beating Italianqualifier Giulia Gatto-Monticone 6-2, 7-5.

However, the 37-year-old pro-fessed herself to be content with herperformance as she has bene strug-gling with a knee injury.

“It is the best I have felt sinceFebruary,” she said.

Williams injury may havehealed but for the former glamourgirl of the circuit Maria Sharapovait was quite the opposite.

The 2004 champion had toretire from her match withFrenchwoman Pauline Parmentierdue to an arm injury and at 32 thechances of ever returning to beinga genuine Grand Slam contendermust be slim.

Sharapova was trailing 4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 5-0 when she called it quits.

Meanwhile, Kate, the Duchessof Cambridge, left the plush con-fines of the Royal Box atWimbledon to watch a Britishwildcard competing on the lowlyoutside courts.

In a rare move for a member ofthe royal family visiting the AllEngland Club, Kate took her placein among the 318 regular seats onCourt 14 to watch Harriet Dart takeon Christina McHale.

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